Intro: Erect to reclining annual of rich moist forests, especially alluvial forests, as well as glades and outcrops over mafic rocks such as greenstone.

Stems: Stems branched from base, reddish-green with a waxy coating.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, to 2 in. long, pinnately divided into 5-7 segments, which are further subdivided or lobed, the lobes minutely pointed at the tip; leaves pale green to bluish-green and smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a short terminal raceme, clear yellow, ½ in. long, bilaterally symmetric, tubular and opening to 4 unequal lobes, the upper one with a toothed crest and backward-pointing spur.

Fruits: Fruit a slender, cylindric capsule containing numerous shiny-black seeds.

Comments:

Height: 4-12 in.

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description: Erect to reclining annual of rich moist forests, especially alluvial forests, as well as glades and outcrops over mafic rocks such as greenstone.

stems: Stems branched from base, reddish-green with a waxy coating.

leaves: Leaves alternate, to 2 in. long, pinnately divided into 5-7 segments, which are further subdivided or lobed, the lobes minutely pointed at the tip; leaves pale green to bluish-green and smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a short terminal raceme, clear yellow, ½ in. long, bilaterally symmetric, tubular and opening to 4 unequal lobes, the upper one with a toothed crest and backward-pointing spur.

fruits: Fruit a slender, cylindric capsule containing numerous shiny-black seeds.

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native range: eastern North America