Intro: Erect to ascending, rhizomatous perennial uncommonly found in Coastal Plain depression ponds, cypress savannas and wet pine savannas, sometimes in standing water.

Stems: Stems slender, unbranched or with a few erect branches, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, very narrow and mostly ascending, 1-2 in. long.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers on long, slender stalks in a terminal raceme; pale to dark pink, 1-1½ in. long, bilaterally symmetric and tubular, opening to 5 spreading, rounded lobes that are hairy on the margins; the throat of the tube is hairy and pale-spotted but lacking yellow lines.

Fruits: Fruit a narrowly oval capsule.

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Height: 2-4 ft.

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description: Erect to ascending, rhizomatous perennial uncommonly found in Coastal Plain depression ponds, cypress savannas and wet pine savannas, sometimes in standing water.

stems: Stems slender, unbranched or with a few erect branches, smooth.

leaves: Leaves opposite, very narrow and mostly ascending, 1-2 in. long.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers on long, slender stalks in a terminal raceme; pale to dark pink, 1-1½ in. long, bilaterally symmetric and tubular, opening to 5 spreading, rounded lobes that are hairy on the margins; the throat of the tube is hairy and pale-spotted but lacking yellow lines.

fruits: Fruit a narrowly oval capsule.

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