Plant is a dwarf in every sense of the word; lleaf, stem, flower and fruit are miniature. The slender stems produce a milky sap when crushed or broken.  Preferred habitat is wet pine savannas and flatwoods, bogs, ditches, swamps, banks of streams, ponds and floodplain forests.  Distribution is throughout the Escambia region.

Leaves are usually without a stalk.  The blades are widest at the middle, oblong or egg-shaped, or may be linear.  The margins are smooth or may have scattered teeth.

Flowers appear in early summer and continues to emerge into early autumn. Color is blue, purple or rose to pink. The calyx is made up of five greenish, triangular-shaped lobes.

The tiny flowers appear in a raceme on a spindly stem that easily bends under the weight of its small pollinators.

Fruit is a capsule. The seeds are minute and irregular in shape, with a reticular surface.