Shrubs erect, branching, inodorous, 1-2 m; bark of older branches shreddy; twigs ± chaffy, densely stiff-hairy. Leaves: petiole 2-4 mm, (hairy); blade green, elliptic to oblong-obovate, 1.5-4 cm, base cuneate, margins ciliate, apex acute to subacute, with prominently glandular-mucronate tip ca. 1 mm, abaxial surface densely pilose, with few, narrowly oblong, lacerate or cleft, multicellular scales on midvein, adaxial surface strigose-hirsute or pilose. Pedicels drooping, spreading to erect in fruit, filiform, 1-3 cm, stipitate-glandular. Flowers appearing with leaves; calyx lobes triangular, 0.5-1.5 mm, margins lacerate/hirsute-ciliate, glandular, apex rounded, glabrous to sparsely hairy; corolla greenish red to yellowish white tinged with red, 8-10 × 5.5-7 mm, lobes 1-2 mm; nectariferous disc obscurely 8-crenate; filaments subulate, flattish, slightly dilated proximally, glabrous; anthers linear-oblong; ovary obovate-globose, glandular-hairy. Capsules obovoid-ovoid to globose, 6 mm, densely stipitate-glandular. Seeds brown, narrowly ovoid, ca. 1 mm including apiculuslike, 0.1 mm appendage at distal end.
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Shrub 1–2 m, with densely hairy twigs; petioles 2–4 mm; lvs thin, elliptic to oblong-obovate, 1.5–4 cm, with a yellowish callous point, pilose above, finely hairy beneath and with a few narrow lacerate or cleft scales on the midvein; fls 2–several, on stipitate-glandular pedicels 1–3 cm; sep glandular-ciliate; cor greenish-red to ochroleucous, 8–10 mm, its erect lobes 1–2 mm; fr minutely glandular, 6 mm. Mt. woods; Pa. to Ga. May, June.
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