This trailing wetland shrub occurs in all regions of North Carolina, but is most common in the Mountains and northeastern Coastal Plain and nearly absent from the Piedmont.

Alleghany Co., NC 6/18/06.

The white flowers are arranged in racemes. Those of the similar R. trivialis are usually solitary.

Alleghany Co., NC 6/18/06.

The trailing stems are covered with hispid bristles.

Alleghany Co., NC 6/18/06.