Perennial by short offsets; stem 4–10 dm, erect, simple or branched above, often somewhat hairy below; lvs linear, to 5 cm, 2–5 mm wide; racemes slender, few-fld, 1–3 dm; pedicels ascending or erect, scabrous, 3–10 mm, about equaling the narrowly linear bracts, bibracteolate at base; sep narrowly lance-linear, erect, 3–4 mm; auricles wanting; cor blue, 1 cm, the lower lip bearded; hypanthium ± elliptic or oblong in fr, 4–7 × 2.5–4 mm; 2n=14. Swamps on the coastal plain; N.J. to Ga.; also in Tenn. and w. N.C. Aug., Sept.
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