Intro: Prostrate, herbaceous perennial vine of sandhills and other relatively dry sandy areas.

Stems: Stems slender, spreading across ground.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, short-petiolate to sessile, linear to narrowly elliptic, to 2 in. long, covered with short and close-pressed hairs.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary on erect, slender stalks from leaf axils; white; 3/4 in. wide; funnel-shaped with 5 corolla lobes that are hairy on the outer surface and 5 also hairy, pale green much shorter calyx lobes. 2 short, dark green bracts subtend the calyx.

Fruits:

Comments: Flowers open in morning; remain open for 1 day.

Height: 1-4 ft. long

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description: Prostrate, herbaceous perennial vine of sandhills and other relatively dry sandy areas.

stems: Stems slender, spreading across ground.

leaves: Leaves alternate, short-petiolate to sessile, linear to narrowly elliptic, to 2 in. long, covered with short and close-pressed hairs.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary on erect, slender stalks from leaf axils; white; 3/4 in. wide; funnel-shaped with 5 corolla lobes that are hairy on the outer surface and 5 also hairy, pale green much shorter calyx lobes. 2 short, dark green bracts subtend the calyx.

fruits:

comments: Flowers open in morning; remain open for 1 day.

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native range: southeastern United States