The plant displays clusters of a few to several flowers arising from leaf axils, at the end of branching stems.

During his career, Fraser served Russian monarchs and collected plant specimens during voyages through North America, the West Indies, and Russia.

Fraser was hailed early on by his biographers as "one of the most enterprising, indefatigable, and persevering men that ever embarked in the cause of botany and natural science".

Botanists have applied several synonyms in identifying Triadenum fraseri, including:[8][9] Triadenum fraseri thrives in wetlands habitats of "bogs, marshes, swales, sedgy meadows, moist sandy (even marly) shores, conifer swamps and alder thickets".

[8] It is categorized as an "obligate wetland" plant by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, Eastern Mountains and Piedmont, Great Plains, Midwest, Northcentral and Northeast; and Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast regions.