Intro: Erect annual of dry to moist pinelands, wet pine savannas, sandhills and other dry woodlands.

Stems: Stems bushy-branched and smooth or finely hairy.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, to 3/4 in. long, pinnately divided into many narrow needle-like segments, pale green and often red-tinged.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in leafy racemes terminating branches, pale yellow, about â…“ in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, consisting of a short corolla tube with 5 spreading, unequal lobes (usually with a red triangle at the base of each of the 3 lower lobes, and splotchy red on the other 2 lobes), a bell-shaped-tubular calyx with 5 lobes and 4 protruding stamens. Buds and outside of petals lack hairs.

Fruits: Fruit an urn- or pear-shaped capsule.

Comments: Parasitic on the roots of pine trees.

Height: 2-3 ft.

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description: Erect annual of dry to moist pinelands, wet pine savannas, sandhills and other dry woodlands.

stems: Stems bushy-branched and smooth or finely hairy.

leaves: Leaves opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, to 3/4 in. long, pinnately divided into many narrow needle-like segments, pale green and often red-tinged.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in leafy racemes terminating branches, pale yellow, about â…“ in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, consisting of a short corolla tube with 5 spreading, unequal lobes (usually with a red triangle at the base of each of the 3 lower lobes, and splotchy red on the other 2 lobes), a bell-shaped-tubular calyx with 5 lobes and 4 protruding stamens. Buds and outside of petals lack hairs.

fruits: Fruit an urn- or pear-shaped capsule.

comments: Parasitic on the roots of pine trees.

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