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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Agalinis purpurea
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Purple False Foxglove at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis purpurea
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
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).
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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).
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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).
COMPARE
pedicels of Gerardia species
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JK Marlow jkm0509b_24
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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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).
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JK Marlow jkm060928_078
September York County SC
Utility right-of-way
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4890
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_090722EClayCty_21ed
September Clay County NC
Nantahala National Forest
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Steve Marlow snm097209_08
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_agalinis_purpurea_2
October
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_agalinis_purpurea_4
October
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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 (10/20/20):
Agalinis purpurea
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis purpurea
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
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
Click here to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rose-lavender
(throat lined with yellow)
Bisexual
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted campanulate corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Flowers in indistinct terminal racemes
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p008
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p106
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p321
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p216
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p228
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p270
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p235
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p279
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p328
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p153
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p304