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Habitat: |
dry, open woods and thickets |
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Plant Height: |
60-120 cm (2'-4'); single or multiple stems from base; erect; sticky stems; coarsely hairy |
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Flower Color: |
red |
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Flower: |
complete; perfect; 5 long sepals; 5-lobed corolla;mostly glabrous; 5 stamens, alternating with the corolla lobes; inferior ovary; 4-lobed stigma |
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Inflorescence: |
1-6 sessile flowers in the leaf axils |
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Fruit: |
3-seeded berry; hairy; yellow-orange with persistent 5-lobed calyx |
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Leaves: |
entire; simple; sessile; opposite; blades widest near apex; has dense, short pubescence |
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Bloom Time: |
May-June |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
also known as Wild Coffee and Tinker's Weed; fruit can be dried as a coffee substitute once ground and roasted
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