Herbage persistently yellow-green; stems 2–6 dm, glabrous or nearly so, with stiffly ascending branches; lvs linear or widened distally, obtuse to acute or acuminate; pedicels 5–15 mm at anthesis, ascending at 30–60º; cal-tube 1.8–3 mm, reticulate-veiny, the lobes thickened, narrow, minutely hairy, projecting 0.1–0.4 mm; cor 1–1.5 cm, pink, with or without yellow lines and red-purple spots in the throat, the lobes rounded, sometimes emarginate so that the cor appears 10-lobed; pollen-sacs 1.2–2.1 mm; fr ellipsoid-globose, 3–5 mm; seeds yellow-brown; 2n=26. Dry, open places, usually in sandy soil; Pa. and Del. to Fla. and La., and inland to Ky. and Tenn. (Gerardia o.; G. decemloba; G. parvifolia; ? G. erecta)
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