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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Aureolaria levigata
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Entireleaf Yellow False Foxglove at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
The spelling 'levigata' was used by Rafinesque in the basionym, Gerardia levigata. There is no basis for its 'correction' to 'laevigata' under provisions of the ICNafp (Shenzhen version), per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Aureolaria laevigata
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-24-004:
Aureolaria laevigata FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia laevigata
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aureolaria laevigata
COMMON NAME:
Appalachian Oak-leach, Smooth False Foxglove, Entireleaf Yellow False Foxglove
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gela3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm080802_064
August Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Inflorescence, pedicels and calyx glabrous; flowering Aug-Sep, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
False-foxglove species
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JK Marlow jkm120830_187
August Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
The stem is smooth and green; it is not glaucous, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm120830_187c
August Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 5-10cm long, 1-2.4cm wide, entire (or rarely lobed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm130922_483
September Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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JK Marlow jkm130922_483b
September Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Pedicels straight, stout (about 1 mm in diameter), 1-8mm long at anthesis, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm130922_487
September Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Lower leaves entire to serrate (or a few shallow lobes at the leaf base, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_090821hiawassee07
September Towns County GA
Hamilton Gardens
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JK Marlow jkm121027_853
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Calyx lobes usually shorter than tube, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Aureolaria levigata
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Aureolaria laevigata
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-24-004:
Aureolaria laevigata
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia laevigata
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aureolaria laevigata
180
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Oak forests and woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite or subopposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p212
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p256
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p057
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p225
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p092
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p271
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p237
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p280
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p341
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p153
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