Ferns-template

An erect herb (1 to 2 feet tall) with a slender stem that has intermittent brown, sticky zones. Tiny (1/4 to 3/8 inch wide) white to very pale pink flowers with an expanded bladder below the 5 notched petals. Leaves opposite, entire, lance-like, short-stalked and tending to grow upwards at an acute angle with the stem.

(Photographed at Eagle Lake - June 26, 2002)