Intro: Erect, clump-forming perennial of moist woods and stream banks, usually in circumneutral soils over limestone or other mafic rock.

Stems: Stems wiry, unbranched, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, oval to lance-shaped, 2-4 in. long, smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a terminal, one-sided spike that curves slightly at the tip; scarlet red with yellow inner surface; to 2 in. long; erect-tubular, with 5 short, pointed, spreading corolla lobes and a protruding style.

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Height: 1-2 ft.

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description: Erect, clump-forming perennial of moist woods and stream banks, usually in circumneutral soils over limestone or other mafic rock.

stems: Stems wiry, unbranched, smooth.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, oval to lance-shaped, 2-4 in. long, smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a terminal, one-sided spike that curves slightly at the tip; scarlet red with yellow inner surface; to 2 in. long; erect-tubular, with 5 short, pointed, spreading corolla lobes and a protruding style.

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native range: southeastern United States