Intro: Erect perennial from a blackish horizontal rhizome, often growing in clumps, in sandhill seepage bogs, pine savannas and on pocosin edges.

Stems: Stems obscurely 3-angled and smooth.

Leaves: Leaves basal, ascending, lance-shaped, 3-5 in. long and keeled on the underside.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a loosely pyramidal panicle with smooth, ascending branches; off-white; composed of 6 oval to lance-shaped, sharp-tipped tepals, each with 2 distinctive dot-shaped glands near the base.

Fruits: Fruit an oval to conic capsule that becomes reddish brown and persists through winter.

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Height: 1-3.5 ft.

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description: Erect perennial from a blackish horizontal rhizome, often growing in clumps, in sandhill seepage bogs, pine savannas and on pocosin edges.

stems: Stems obscurely 3-angled and smooth.

leaves: Leaves basal, ascending, lance-shaped, 3-5 in. long and keeled on the underside.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a loosely pyramidal panicle with smooth, ascending branches; off-white; composed of 6 oval to lance-shaped, sharp-tipped tepals, each with 2 distinctive dot-shaped glands near the base.

fruits: Fruit an oval to conic capsule that becomes reddish brown and persists through winter.

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native range: southeastern United States