Intro: Erect annual of alluvial swamps, marshes, peaty pond margins, seasonally exposed river shores, ditches and other wet habitats.

Stems: Stems somewhat 4-angled, branched above in inflorescence, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic to oval and tapered at both ends, to 3 in. long.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers arranged along one side of ascending, terminal branches and in similar, smaller clusters from leaf axils, the branches slightly coiling at the tip; white, tiny, funnel-shaped with 5 spreading, pointy lobes.

Fruits: Fruit a tiny, deeply 2-lobed capsule.

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Height: 4-32 in.

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description: Erect annual of alluvial swamps, marshes, peaty pond margins, seasonally exposed river shores, ditches and other wet habitats.

stems: Stems somewhat 4-angled, branched above in inflorescence, smooth.

leaves: Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic to oval and tapered at both ends, to 3 in. long.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers arranged along one side of ascending, terminal branches and in similar, smaller clusters from leaf axils, the branches slightly coiling at the tip; white, tiny, funnel-shaped with 5 spreading, pointy lobes.

fruits: Fruit a tiny, deeply 2-lobed capsule.

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