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Habitat: |
moist, wet woods or open wet places |
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Plant Height: |
30-80 cm tall, erect stem; well developed rhizome |
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Flower Color: |
white to lilac |
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Flower: |
complete; perfect; deeply 5-lobed petals; 5 long sepals, tapering to point with long hairs; 5 stamens adnate at base of corolla tube with hairy filaments extending beyond petals; stamens and style long |
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Inflorescence: |
compact cymes lacking well developed main axis; dense at anthesis |
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Fruit: |
2-valved capsule |
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Leaves: |
alternate; petiolate; pinnately compound; glabrous or nearly so |
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Bloom Time: |
April-June |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
see other Hydrophyllum especially H. macrophyllum; Native Americans used a root tea as an astringent for diarrhea and dysentery; the raw roots were chewed to treat mouth sores |