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Habitat: |
woods, dry to moist low woods, rocky slopes |
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Plant Height: |
20 cm; sprawling to erect, multiple stems from thick roots; pubescent |
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Flower Color: |
white |
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Flower: |
complete; perfect; 5 petals, notched and appearing as ten; 5 sepals; stamens 10; ovary superior; styles 3; 1.5 cm wide |
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Inflorescence: |
solitary flower borne between opposite stems; peduncles elongating in fruit |
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Fruit: |
4-valved, many-seeded capsule |
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Leaves: |
entire; simple; opposite; sessile to very short-petiolate; lanceolate to oblong to narrowly ovate; mostly glabrous but typically with pubescent margins on lower half of blade |
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Bloom Time: |
late April-May |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
stems in two forms, flowering and non-flowering |