Intro: Erect perennial of dry woodlands, clearings and other disturbed areas.

Stems: Stems sparsely branched and ascending, with long soft hairs to shorter stiff hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate; on winged petioles; oval to lance-shaped with a tapering base; 1-4 in. long; with sparsely toothed, wavy or entire margins; sparsely to abundantly short-hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary and drooping on stalks from leaf axils; yellow with distinctly dark centers; about 3/4 in. wide; funnel-shaped with 5 very shallow lobes, 5 fused hairy sepals and 5 stamens, usually with yellow tips.

Fruits: Fruit an orange or red berry enclosed by a densely hairy, 5-angled expanded calyx, which matures to a papery husk.

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Height: 4-16 in. (sometimes taller)

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description: Erect perennial of dry woodlands, clearings and other disturbed areas.

stems: Stems sparsely branched and ascending, with long soft hairs to shorter stiff hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate; on winged petioles; oval to lance-shaped with a tapering base; 1-4 in. long; with sparsely toothed, wavy or entire margins; sparsely to abundantly short-hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary and drooping on stalks from leaf axils; yellow with distinctly dark centers; about 3/4 in. wide; funnel-shaped with 5 very shallow lobes, 5 fused hairy sepals and 5 stamens, usually with yellow tips.

fruits: Fruit an orange or red berry enclosed by a densely hairy, 5-angled expanded calyx, which matures to a papery husk.

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