Clustered Mille Graines

Oldenlandia uniflora L. Sp. PI. 119. 1753
Hedyotis Auricularia Walt. Fl. Car. 85. 1788. Not H. Auricularia L. 1753.
Oldenlandia glomerata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 83. 1803.
Hedyotis virginica Spreng. Pug. 2: 34. 1815.
Hedyotis glomerata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 188. 1816.
Edrastima uniflora Raf. Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 6: 269. 1834.
Stelmotis glomerata Raf. New Fl. 4: 101. 1838.
Stelmanis glomerata Raf. Aut. Bot. 13. 1840.
Erect or decumbent annual, the stems simple or often much branched, 0.5-6 dm. long, the branches slender, subangulate, white-hirsutulous along the angles, at least above, often densely so, the internodes usually longer than the leaves; stipules 1.5-3 mm. long, the lobes mostly bicuspidate, sometimes laciniately lobed or dentate, white-hirsute; petioles stout, 2.5 mm. long or shorter; leaf-blades mostly ovate, sometimes oval or ovate-elliptic, 6-25 mm. long, 2.5-12 mm. wide, acute or obtuse at the apex, mucronulate, obtuse to acute at the base, thin, bright-green or yellowish-green, scaberulous or hirsutulous along the veins, paler beneath, the lateral veins nearly obsolete; flowers axillary, solitary or densely clustered, subsessile or short-pedicellate, the pedicels shorter than the calyx; hypanthium about 1 mm. long, the calyxlobes longer, lanceolate to broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, ciliolate, approximate in fruit; corolla subrotate, white, much shorter than the calyx-lobes; capsule subglobose, 1.5-2 mm. long, bisulcate, usually densely white-hirsutulous; seeds minute, angulate, brownish-black, dull.
Type locality: Virginia.
Distribution: In moist or wet soil, southern New York to Florida and Texas; Cuba and the Isle of Pines.