Intro: Erect, lavender-blue-flowered perennial of seepage slopes, pitcher-plant bogs, streamhead margins, pine savannas, pine flatwoods and margins of beaver ponds.

Stems: Stems smooth to sparsely hairy.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, linear to narrowly lanceolate, to 6 in. long, sessile, thick textured, often with hardened teeth on the margins.

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Flowers: Flowers few-20 in a one-sided, narrow, terminal spike; 1 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and tubular; with 2 spreading lips, the upper lip smaller and 2-lobed, the lower one 3-lobed with a patch of hairs inside at the base. The calyx is cup-shaped with 5 narrow, toothed or entire lobes.

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Height: 1.5-3 ft.

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description: Erect, lavender-blue-flowered perennial of seepage slopes, pitcher-plant bogs, streamhead margins, pine savannas, pine flatwoods and margins of beaver ponds.

stems: Stems smooth to sparsely hairy.

leaves: Leaves alternate, linear to narrowly lanceolate, to 6 in. long, sessile, thick textured, often with hardened teeth on the margins.

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flowers: Flowers few-20 in a one-sided, narrow, terminal spike; 1 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and tubular; with 2 spreading lips, the upper lip smaller and 2-lobed, the lower one 3-lobed with a patch of hairs inside at the base. The calyx is cup-shaped with 5 narrow, toothed or entire lobes.

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