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Apocynum androsaemifolium L.                      Dogbane

Stems 3-9 dm tall; branches many flowers; leaves ovate, cuspidate, 1-4 cm long, dark-green above, pale below; flowers rose-colored; calyx lobes about equaling the tube; corolla 5-6 mm long, lobes recurved; pod 6-8 cm long, spreading or reflexed; in dry open woods.

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