Intro: Erect to ascending annual found in open woodlands, sandy fields and roadsides, primarily in the outer Coastal Plain.

Stems: Stems slender, widely branched, stiff-hairy.

Leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem, sessile and sometimes in clusters, lance-shaped, to 3 in. long (reduced upward), with a few vague teeth, smooth or stiff-hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in branched terminal spikes, white (aging to pink), consisting of 3-4 oblong-oval to spoon-shaped petals that tend to cluster at one side of the flower, giving it a bilaterally symmetric look; 4 reddish-pink sepals are severely swept backward.

Fruits: Fruit a sessile, sharply 3- or 4-angled, oval pod.

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Height: 3-5 ft.

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description: Erect to ascending annual found in open woodlands, sandy fields and roadsides, primarily in the outer Coastal Plain.

stems: Stems slender, widely branched, stiff-hairy.

leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem, sessile and sometimes in clusters, lance-shaped, to 3 in. long (reduced upward), with a few vague teeth, smooth or stiff-hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in branched terminal spikes, white (aging to pink), consisting of 3-4 oblong-oval to spoon-shaped petals that tend to cluster at one side of the flower, giving it a bilaterally symmetric look; 4 reddish-pink sepals are severely swept backward.

fruits: Fruit a sessile, sharply 3- or 4-angled, oval pod.

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