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Information Erect, simple or little-branched scabrid herb a few inches to 2 ft. high; flowers pink, or sometimes scarlet or yellow, subtended by leafy bracts; in wet places; drying greenish-brown.

Information Annual, up to 70 cm tall, unbranched or with 2–4 branches below the middle, scabrous to hispid; stem square, furrowed. Leaves 15–40(–90) x 4–12 mm, opposite, lanceolate, coarsely toothed, 3–5-veined, usually shorter than internodes. Lower bracts 20–50(–90) x 3–12 mm, leaf-like, longer than calyx, upper bracts shorter than calyx. Flowers opposite in open racemes, raceme shorter than vegetative stem. Calyx 10–15-ribbed, 9–14(–20) mm long; tube 4–6 mm long; lobes 5, equal, broadly lanceolate, 5–9(–14) mm long, longer than tube. Corolla salmon-pink; tube 20–25 mm long, bent and expanded distally above calyx, densely glandular-pubescent; lobes of lower lip 6–9 x 3–6 mm, obovate, spreading; upper lip 3–6 x 6–9 mm, emarginate.

Information an erect herb, scabrid, greenish, simple or somewhat branched, annual, 1–2 ft. high; stem furrowed, leafy, comparatively robust, puberulous-scabrid, hispidulous towards the apex, not pubescent; middle internodes about equalling or exceeding the leaves; leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate or oval-oblong, obtuse or somewhat wedge-shaped at the sessile base, subherbaceous, scabrid on both faces and on the margin, otherwise glabrous, unequally dentate, 1–2 3/4 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 in. broad; flowers spicate, scarlet or orange, rather few, subsessile, about 1 in. long; spikes lax, elongating; bracts mostly much exceeding the calyx; bracteoles linear-subulate or sublanceolate, about 1/4– 3/8 in. long in flower, ciliolate; calyx narrow, about 1/2 in. long, hispidulous; tube about 1/5– 1/4 in. long, 10-ribbed; lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate or sublinear, 1/6– 1/3 in. long in flower, elongating in fruit; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, sparingly puberulous, nearly 1 in. long, somewhat dilated and much curved near the apex; limb spreading; lobes obovate, 1/4– 3/8 in. long; throat finely pilose; capsules ovoid-oval, 1/3 in. long. null

Information Stiffly erect annual, dark green, up to 75 cm high, but usually much shorter; stems simple to sparsely branched, young parts glandular-pubescent, becoming scabrous with age. Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, (1–)2–4(–7) cm long, 3–7(–10) mm wide, acute to obtuse, margins coarsely toothed, each tooth the termination of one of the secondary veins, margins recurved, scabrid-pubescent, 3-veined. Flowers opposite to alternate, in open racemes; bracts leaf-like, seldom more than 2 cm long; bracteoles linear, shorter than the calyx. Calyx 10-ribbed, tube 5–9 mm long, lobes lanceolate, as long as tube, veins scabrid hairy. Corolla salmon pink, no obvious scent; tube ± 2 cm long, bent near top, glandular-pubescent; middle lower lobe obovate, 7–9(–13) mm long, 4–7(–11) mm wide, upper lobes smaller, emarginate. Capsule oblong, flattened, shorter than calyx-tube, rounded at apex.

Information Stiffly erect annual herb, dark green, sparsely branched, to 75 cm. high, usually much shorter. Young parts glandular-pubescent, becoming scabrous with age. Leaves sessile, opposite, 3-nerved, (1)2–4(7) x 3–7(10) cm., coarsely toothed each tooth the termination of one of the secondary veins, margins recurved, scabrid-pubescent. Bracts leaf-like, usually more than 2 cm. long. Flowers opposite to alternate. Calyx tube 5–9 mm. long, lobes lanceolate as long as tube, nerves scabrid hairy; bracteoles linear, shorter than calyx. Corolla salmon pink, densely glandular-pubescent, no obvious scent, tube c. 2 cm. long, angled near top, middle lower lobe 7–9( 11) mm. wide, upper lobes smaller. Capsule shorter than calyx tube, flattened, rounded at apex.