Intro: Semi-erect to creeping perennial of bogs, marshes, streamsides, wet meadows and seeps.

Stems: Stems usually branched, rooting at lower nodes, fleshy and smooth.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, short-petiolate, lance-shaped to lance-oval, 3/4-3 in. long, with toothed margins.

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Flowers: Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, blue-violet or white striped with purple, 1/4-1/3 in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, consisting of 4 tiny petals, 3 of which are about equal and the fourth slightly smaller; 2 stamens and 1 style protrude from the green center.

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Height: 4-36 in.

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description: Semi-erect to creeping perennial of bogs, marshes, streamsides, wet meadows and seeps.

stems: Stems usually branched, rooting at lower nodes, fleshy and smooth.

leaves: Leaves opposite, short-petiolate, lance-shaped to lance-oval, 3/4-3 in. long, with toothed margins.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, blue-violet or white striped with purple, 1/4-1/3 in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, consisting of 4 tiny petals, 3 of which are about equal and the fourth slightly smaller; 2 stamens and 1 style protrude from the green center.

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