Plants 0.5-4 m. Leaves 2-13 × 1-8 cm. Flowers : corolla white to pale pink or purplish, 10-17 × 3-7 mm. Capsules compressed-cylindric, ca. 10 mm. Seeds compressed-globose, lustrous. 2 n = 32. Flowering summer-early fall. Moist coves, rocky woods, ledges, alluvial slopes, and thickets; 0-1500 m; B.C., Man., N.B., N.S., Ont., Que.; Conn., Del., Ill., Ind., Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.