Perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs, 10-100+ cm. Leaf blades obovate or oblong to elliptic or ob-lanceolate, 30-50(-100+) × 10-20(-40+) mm, margins entire or denticulate, faces stipitate-glandular (at least distal leaves), glabrescent. Peduncles (25-)50-150+ mm. Phyllaries 12-16+, 10-15+ mm. Ray florets 12-21+; corollas abaxially usually violet to blue or purplish, sometimes cream to pink or salmon, adaxially whitish to blue or purplish, laminae (15-)20-45+ mm. Disc florets 40-60+; corollas ± purplish, 3.5-4.5 mm. Cypselae 6-7 mm. 2n = 20.

Flowering Dec-Apr. Disturbed places; 0-200 m; introduced; Calif.; Africa.