Intro: Creeping to erect annual of moist, disturbed habitats such as lawns, fields, successional forests and well-drained floodplain forests.

Stems: Stems branched at the base, hairy.

Leaves: Leaves alternate (upper) and opposite (lower), petiolate, oval or kidney-shaped in outline but with 3-5 lobes, 1/4-3/4 in. long, bristly-hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary on short stalks from leaf axils, light lavender to pale blue and sometimes with darker lines, less than 1/2 in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, consisting of 4 tiny petals, 3 of which are about the same size and the fourth slightly smaller.

Fruits: Fruit a heart-shaped capsule.

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Height: 2-14 in.

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description: Creeping to erect annual of moist, disturbed habitats such as lawns, fields, successional forests and well-drained floodplain forests.

stems: Stems branched at the base, hairy.

leaves: Leaves alternate (upper) and opposite (lower), petiolate, oval or kidney-shaped in outline but with 3-5 lobes, 1/4-3/4 in. long, bristly-hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary on short stalks from leaf axils, light lavender to pale blue and sometimes with darker lines, less than 1/2 in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, consisting of 4 tiny petals, 3 of which are about the same size and the fourth slightly smaller.

fruits: Fruit a heart-shaped capsule.

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