Intro: Erect perennial of dry pine woodlands, other woodlands, forest edges and old fields.

Stems: Stems loosely to compactly branched in upper half of plant, with short pressed-in hairs; older stems prostrate and forming a basal rosette.

Leaves: Stem leaves opposite to sub-opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, linear-lance-shaped, 1/4-3/4 in. long, smooth except for short hairs on margins and midrib beneath. Leaves on basal shoots often whorled and a little wider and shorter.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a loose panicle with ascending branches occupying the upper 1/2 of the plant, reddish, tiny, consisting of 3 petals that are mostly concealed by the sepals and rarely spreading.

Fruits: Fruit a slender ellipsoid to narrowly pear-shaped capsule partially enclosed by the persistent calyx.

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Height: 4-32 in.

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description: Erect perennial of dry pine woodlands, other woodlands, forest edges and old fields.

stems: Stems loosely to compactly branched in upper half of plant, with short pressed-in hairs; older stems prostrate and forming a basal rosette.

leaves: Stem leaves opposite to sub-opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, linear-lance-shaped, 1/4-3/4 in. long, smooth except for short hairs on margins and midrib beneath. Leaves on basal shoots often whorled and a little wider and shorter.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a loose panicle with ascending branches occupying the upper 1/2 of the plant, reddish, tiny, consisting of 3 petals that are mostly concealed by the sepals and rarely spreading.

fruits: Fruit a slender ellipsoid to narrowly pear-shaped capsule partially enclosed by the persistent calyx.

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