Intro: Erect perennial found in marshes, wet pine savannas, seeps and seasonally wet clearings.

Stems: Stems tufted, from a slightly woody crown, unbranched, hairy.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, oval to lance-oval, to 3/4 in. long, toothed toward the tip, with long hairs and pebbly texture on upper surface.

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Flowers: Flowers mostly sessile in leaf axils, white; about ¼ in. long; bilaterally symmetric; with a tubular corolla (hairy inside) opening to 5 tiny, spreading lobes that may be veined with purple. There are 5 hairy, unequal, linear-lance-shaped sepals about as long as the corolla tube.

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Height: 4-28 in.

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description: Erect perennial found in marshes, wet pine savannas, seeps and seasonally wet clearings.

stems: Stems tufted, from a slightly woody crown, unbranched, hairy.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, oval to lance-oval, to 3/4 in. long, toothed toward the tip, with long hairs and pebbly texture on upper surface.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers mostly sessile in leaf axils, white; about ¼ in. long; bilaterally symmetric; with a tubular corolla (hairy inside) opening to 5 tiny, spreading lobes that may be veined with purple. There are 5 hairy, unequal, linear-lance-shaped sepals about as long as the corolla tube.

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