Plant is an upright, smooth annual, often having reddish stems. Preferred habitat is prairies, roadsides, fields and thin woods. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region.

Leaves are thread-like (almost filiform) and opposite on the stem, usually reddish.

Flowers are a raceme at the end of the flowering stem. The calyx is slightly lobed, the corolla has two lips; the upper lip being 2-lobed and the lower lip is 3-lobed, purple with throat showing two distinct yellow streaks and purple dots; four stamens. Flowers occur in the autumn.

Fruit is a capsule.