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Habitat: |
moist ground, low woods, slopes, stream banks, ravines |
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Plant Height: |
up to 1.5m tall; erect; branching above |
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Flower Color: |
orange/yellow, spotted |
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Flower: |
complete; perfect; sepals 3, larger sepal with spur; petals 5, appearing as only 3 petals because of the union of the lateral petals, orange-yellow stamens 5, connate around stigma; pistil 1; ovary 5-locular; to 3cm long, 1cm wide. |
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Inflorescence: |
clusters of 1-3 pedicillate flowers from leaf axils; pedicels to 3cm long, sometimes with small scale-like bracts. |
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Fruit: |
loculicidal dihscent capsule |
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Leaves: |
alternate, petiolate; petiole to 5cm long, glabrous; blade ovate to elliptic, shallow serrate, to 10cm long |
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Bloom Time: |
May - October |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
annual often occurs in dense stands; bees and butterflies important pollinators along with hummingbirds | |