Intro: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of wet savannas, savanna-swamp ecotones and ditches adjacent to former pinelands.

Stems: Stems 4-angled and ridged, simple, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, petiolate or sessile (may be clasping above), lance-shaped, to 6 in. long (upper leaves much reduced and uppermost pair often no larger than the floral bracts), bluntly toothed to entire.

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Flowers: Flowers closely spaced along a purplish-red-tinged, finely hairy terminal raceme; deep purple-pink; 1 1/2-2 in. long; bilaterally symmetric; tubular and inflated, with darker splotches within, opening to 2 spreading lips, the lower one 3-lobed. The purple-tinged, tubular calyx is shorter, has 5 triangular lobes and is finely hairy.

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Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of wet savannas, savanna-swamp ecotones and ditches adjacent to former pinelands.

stems: Stems 4-angled and ridged, simple, smooth.

leaves: Leaves opposite, petiolate or sessile (may be clasping above), lance-shaped, to 6 in. long (upper leaves much reduced and uppermost pair often no larger than the floral bracts), bluntly toothed to entire.

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flowers: Flowers closely spaced along a purplish-red-tinged, finely hairy terminal raceme; deep purple-pink; 1 1/2-2 in. long; bilaterally symmetric; tubular and inflated, with darker splotches within, opening to 2 spreading lips, the lower one 3-lobed. The purple-tinged, tubular calyx is shorter, has 5 triangular lobes and is finely hairy.

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native range: NC, SC, GA & FL