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Slightly sprawling forb w/ opposite, entire leaves and pairs of strange, fleshy, maroon spiky structures (fruiting bodies?) protruding at the leaf axils all along the stem. Pic taken in
Remnant wet mesic sand prairie in the Chicago Lake Plain (Calumet region), dominated by blue-joint grass, prairie cord grass, rushes and sedges, water plantain, swamp milkweed, blue-fruited dogwood, Spirea alba. (And purple loosestrife.)
Spotted on Oct 15, 2011
Submitted on Nov 11, 2011
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