The calyx is cup-shaped, 3-3.5 mm long, glandular on the outside, often purplish-black. It is split to the middle or slightly beyond, with rectangular to lanceolate or narrowly elliptic lobes, acute or obtuse at the apex, sometimes with small teeth.
The corolla is blue-purple, 4.5-6 mm long, with a short tube nearly equaling the calyx, and a limb diameter of 4-6 mm. The lobes are nearly square or slightly inverted-ovate to elliptic, 2-lobed at the apex.
It flowers in July.
It is a perennial herb with a very short rhizome and numerous fibrous roots. The leaf rosettes are less than 1.3 cm tall, usually forming dense cushion-like clusters, with brownish withered leaves at the base.