Texas Screwstem

Description

A slender, rigidly erect annual, up to 3 dm tall. Produces small white flowers in September and October.Smaller flowers than B. paniculata and in a different habitat of shaded bay-galls.Along wooded streams, bogs, and creek bottoms in swampy tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) forests and bay-gall (Ilex coriacea) thickets. Often on elevated clumps of sphagnum moss or other organic matter (Poole et al. 2007).