Intro: Erect to sprawling annual/short-lived perennial of marshes, bogs, seeps, beaver ponds and wet thickets.

Stems: Stems sprawling over other plants, hollow and brittle, ridged with recurved barbs on the ridges.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate to sessile and with a short-fringed, membranous sheath (ocrea) where petiole meets stem; lance-shaped with 2 "earlobes" at the base; 1-4 in. long; with fine hairs on margins and recurved barbs on the mid-vein beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in small, rounded clusters on stalks from upper leaf axils; white to pale pink; less than 1/4 in. long; consisting of 5 oval tepals.

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Height: 3-6 ft.

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description: Erect to sprawling annual/short-lived perennial of marshes, bogs, seeps, beaver ponds and wet thickets.

stems: Stems sprawling over other plants, hollow and brittle, ridged with recurved barbs on the ridges.

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate to sessile and with a short-fringed, membranous sheath (ocrea) where petiole meets stem; lance-shaped with 2 "earlobes" at the base; 1-4 in. long; with fine hairs on margins and recurved barbs on the mid-vein beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in small, rounded clusters on stalks from upper leaf axils; white to pale pink; less than 1/4 in. long; consisting of 5 oval tepals.

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