Stem almost capillary, 5–15 cm, with scattered minute scale-lvs; fls 5 mm, solitary and terminal, or in luxuriant specimens several in a bifurcate cyme; ovary-wings porcelain-blue, semi-obovate; outer perianth-lobes 2 mm, the inner smaller. Bogs on the coastal plain; se. Va. to Fla. and Tex. Aug.