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Water Howellia is a glabrous, much-branched, annual, aquatic herb with fragile, submerged and floating stems that are up to 100 cm tall. The simple, alternate or occasionally opposite or whorled stem leaves are narrowly linear, 1-5 cm long, and entire-margined. Beneath the surface of the water, small flowers that produce seeds without opening are solitary in the leaf axils. Once the stems reach ...

Candystick has pink and white-striped stems, 1-4 dm high and 5-10 mm thick. Stems are clothed in white to pinkish, alternate, lance-shaped leaves that are largest near mid-stem. Flowers are borne in tight clusters in the axils of the upper leaves (bracts). Each flower has 5 separate white to pinkish sepals, ca. 5 mm long, and 10 purple stamens. Petals are lacking. The 5-lobed ovary matures to fo...