Desert, semi-desert. Open shrub and grasslands. Spring.

Because it is so slender and dainty this is a difficult plant to find.  Its stem is light tan to maroon and its lobed basal rosette of leaves and its flowers are small.  Flowers appear at first to be pointed but eventually fully open to distinctive, tubular flowers with lobed petals.  Flower stems frequently nod.  Plants grow to about a foot tall.

"Acrolasia" is from the Greek for "summit hairs" and probably refers, William Weber theorizes, "to hairs at petal tips".