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Iresine rhizomatosa
Standley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 28: 172. 1915.
Juda's bush
Herbs,
perennial, 3-10 dm, stoloniferous.
Stems
erect, largely simple proximal to inflorescences, villous or glabrous.
Leaves
op-posite; blade ovate to elliptic, 6-15 × 2-7 cm, apex acute to long acuminate, sparsely pubescent.
Inflorescences:
panicles 7-30 cm; bracts and bracteoles of staminate and pistillate flowers shorter than tepals.
Flowers:
tepals white, ovate, 1-1.3 mm, hyaline, apex acute to acuminate, densely lanate.
Utricles
exerted from tepals, greenish white, ovoid, 1.1-1.5 mm, apex rounded.
Seeds
0.5-0.8 mm.
Flowering fall. Sandy alluvial soils of low woods, depressions, sand dunes, along rivers, sandy bluffs; 0-200 m; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kans., Ky., La., Md., Miss., Mo., N.C., Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va.
Iresine rhizomatosa
has occasionally been called
I. celsioides
Linnaeus, a misapplication of that name.
