Intro: Erect to reclining annual of marshes, wet meadows, bogs, ditches.

Stems: Stems simple or sparingly branched, usually smooth or with short rough hairs.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile or clasping, lance-shaped, 1 1/2-8 in. long, usually coarsely toothed, and smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) on long stalks from upper leaf axils, starting out erect but later nodding; heads 1/2-1 1/2 in. wide, consisting of 6-8 yellow, elliptic ray florets with toothed tips (may be absent) encircling a central disk of yellow, 5-lobed tubular florets. 2 series of bracts, the inner yellow and the outer green and curling backward with age, surround the base of the head.

Fruits: Fruit an achene with 4 (or 2) barbed awns.

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Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Erect to reclining annual of marshes, wet meadows, bogs, ditches.

stems: Stems simple or sparingly branched, usually smooth or with short rough hairs.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile or clasping, lance-shaped, 1 1/2-8 in. long, usually coarsely toothed, and smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) on long stalks from upper leaf axils, starting out erect but later nodding; heads 1/2-1 1/2 in. wide, consisting of 6-8 yellow, elliptic ray florets with toothed tips (may be absent) encircling a central disk of yellow, 5-lobed tubular florets. 2 series of bracts, the inner yellow and the outer green and curling backward with age, surround the base of the head.

fruits: Fruit an achene with 4 (or 2) barbed awns.

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