Intro: Erect or ascending, widely branching to bushy perennial found in moist to dry forests, woodlands and clearings.

Stems: Stems with loosely ascending branches, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, loosely spreading or drooping on slender petioles, oval to oval-oblong, to 3½ in. long, smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in large clusters at tips of branches and smaller ones in leaf axils, flowering simultaneously; white often pink-tinged or pink with red stripes inside; less than ½ in long; tubular-bell-shaped with 5 spreading to recurved corolla lobes; fragrant.

Fruits: Fruit a dangling pair of cylindrical-linear, slightly curved follicles containing silky-tufted seeds.

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Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Erect or ascending, widely branching to bushy perennial found in moist to dry forests, woodlands and clearings.

stems: Stems with loosely ascending branches, smooth.

leaves: Leaves opposite, loosely spreading or drooping on slender petioles, oval to oval-oblong, to 3½ in. long, smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in large clusters at tips of branches and smaller ones in leaf axils, flowering simultaneously; white often pink-tinged or pink with red stripes inside; less than ½ in long; tubular-bell-shaped with 5 spreading to recurved corolla lobes; fragrant.

fruits: Fruit a dangling pair of cylindrical-linear, slightly curved follicles containing silky-tufted seeds.

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