Intro: Erect to reclining perennial of seeps in wet pine savannas and flatwoods and in drier, sandy uplands.

Stems: Stems unbranched, purplish, with vertical lines of hairs; leaks milky sap when bruised.

Leaves: Leaves mostly opposite, sessile, linear, 2-4 1/2 in. long, smooth or sometimes with hairy veins beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in rounded terminal umbels, greenish-white tinged with pink, about 3/8 in. long, consisting of 5 strongly reflexed corolla lobes and a central crown--composed of 5 2-parted appendages ("hood" and "horn," the horns long and pointy)--surrounding a complex structure of fused anthers and style.

Fruits: Fruit a slender follicle containing tufted seeds.

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Height: 4-16 in.

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description: Erect to reclining perennial of seeps in wet pine savannas and flatwoods and in drier, sandy uplands.

stems: Stems unbranched, purplish, with vertical lines of hairs; leaks milky sap when bruised.

leaves: Leaves mostly opposite, sessile, linear, 2-4 1/2 in. long, smooth or sometimes with hairy veins beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in rounded terminal umbels, greenish-white tinged with pink, about 3/8 in. long, consisting of 5 strongly reflexed corolla lobes and a central crown--composed of 5 2-parted appendages ("hood" and "horn," the horns long and pointy)--surrounding a complex structure of fused anthers and style.

fruits: Fruit a slender follicle containing tufted seeds.

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