Found growing in limited areas along open roadsides.

In this area I rarely see an Eastern Box with the highly marked carapace. Usually the are a olive/brown with sometime just a hint of an underlying pattern.

Terrible picture. Growing in open prairie after recent rains. Locally common.

Very limited number in seasonally moist area. Less than 10 plants found.

Occasional specimens on exposed, eroded ground near roadside.

Common in large colonies in moist prairies, ditches etc.

Occasional in open prairie.

Common in dry prairie soils.

Common prairie, roadside plant.

Common along roadsides.

Occasional along moist roadsides.

Very common along roadsides and forest edges.

Lightly fragrant.

Most of the petals had fallen off. Growing in moist understory in deeply shaded forest.