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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Agalinis purpurea   FAMILY Orobanchaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis purpurea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Agalinis purpurea var. purpurea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)

Agalinis purpurea var. purpurea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Agalinis purpurea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-003:

Agalinis purpurea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Gerardia purpurea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Agalinis purpurea

 

COMMON NAME:
Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove


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Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_a_purpurea_10

June    Floyd County    GA

Leaves up to 1.5" long and 1/8" wide, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

Keith Bradley    kab_a_purpurea_72043

August    Miami-Dade County    FL

Ludlam Pineland Preserve

Slender white stigma and white anthers at right angles form a cross, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

Keith Bradley    kab_a_purpurea_73460

August    Miami-Dade County    FL

Everglades National Park

Flowers are between 0.75" & 1.5" long on extremely short stalks, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).


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image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

JK Marlow    jkm0509b_24

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

JK Marlow    jkm060928_028b

September    York County    SC

Utility right-of-way

Calyx tube 3-4mm long, lobes reduced to minute awl-shaped teeth 0.3-2mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

JK Marlow    jkm060928_078

September    York County    SC

Utility right-of-way

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

JK Marlow    jkm180924_4890

September    McCormick County    SC

Parks Mill

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

Stephanie C. Brundage    scb_090722EClayCty_21ed

September    Clay County    NC

Nantahala National Forest

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

Steve Marlow    snm097209_08

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_agalinis_purpurea_2

October        

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_agalinis_purpurea_4

October        

image of Agalinis purpurea, Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove

JK Marlow    jkm081101_011

November    Greenwood County    SC

Roadside

Fruit a spherical capsule 4-6mm wide, splitting at maturity, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Agalinis purpurea   FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis purpurea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agalinis purpurea var. purpurea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Agalinis purpurea var. purpurea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agalinis purpurea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-003:
Agalinis purpurea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia purpurea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agalinis purpurea

 

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Forb
Annual

Habitat: woodlands, wet meadows, roadsides, in a wide variety of open habitats, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rose-lavender (throat lined with yellow)
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted campanulate corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in indistinct terminal racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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