The plant is an erect perennial herb. Average height of a single stalk is about 5 feet.with a slender, sparsly-branched, heavily striated (marked with fine, parallel lines) and a hollow stem. The roots are fibrous. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region. Its preferred habitat is wet ditches, prairies, bogs, marshes, and pinelands.
The leaves are alternate on the stem, consisting of one whole part, no teeth and no lobes, flattened, and linear in form.