Intro: Erect to ascending perennial found in swamp forests.

Stems: Stems several from a woody crown, mostly unbranched, dark purplish-green, smooth below, with a line of hairs above between leaf nodes; leaks milky sap when bruised.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic to lance-shaped, 2 1/2-5 1/2 in. long, waxy-white beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in umbels at stem top and from upper leaf axils, white (may be tinged pale lavender), about 1/4 in. long, consisting of 5 reflexed corolla lobes and a central crown--composed of 5 2-parted appendages ("hood" and "horn")--surrounding a complex structure of fused anthers and style.

Fruits: Fruit a follicle containing tufted seeds.

Comments: The tips of flower buds are pink.

Height: 1-2 ft.

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description: Erect to ascending perennial found in swamp forests.

stems: Stems several from a woody crown, mostly unbranched, dark purplish-green, smooth below, with a line of hairs above between leaf nodes; leaks milky sap when bruised.

leaves: Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic to lance-shaped, 2 1/2-5 1/2 in. long, waxy-white beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in umbels at stem top and from upper leaf axils, white (may be tinged pale lavender), about 1/4 in. long, consisting of 5 reflexed corolla lobes and a central crown--composed of 5 2-parted appendages ("hood" and "horn")--surrounding a complex structure of fused anthers and style.

fruits: Fruit a follicle containing tufted seeds.

comments: The tips of flower buds are pink.

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