Perennial 0.5–1.5 m; stems usually green, glabrous but not glaucous; lowest lvs lance-ovate, entire or sometimes with a few lobes or teeth; middle and upper lvs lanceolate, entire or sometimes serrate; pedicels stout, straight, suberect, 1–4 mm at anthesis, not much more in fr; cal glabrous, its lobes lance-acuminate, entire; cor 3–3.5 cm, its lobes finely ciliate; fr glabrous, narrowly ovoid, 10–15 mm. Upland woods, chiefly in the mts.; Pa. and w. Md. and s. O. to Ga. July–Sept. (Gerardia l.; Dasistoma l.)
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