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Photographer: PNW Weed Management Handbook
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Family Scrophulariaceae
Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.
sharp-leaved cancerwort
Kickxia: after Jean Kickx Jr. (1803-1864), and/or his father Jean Kickx (1775-1831); Belgian professors of botany
elatine: ancient Greek name for some low creeping plant
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | drooping or trailing annual, to 20" tall forb; stems not rooting |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, slender spur at the base, upper lip purple inside, stalks mostly smooth; solitary from the leaf axils |
| Leaf: | triangular |
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