OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis setacea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

Agalinis setacea

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

Agalinis setacea

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen [& Franck], 2015 et seq.)

Agalinis obtusifolia

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

Agalinis setacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-007:

Agalinis setacea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Gerardia setacea

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

Agalinis setacea

 

COMMON NAME:
Threadleaf Gerardia, Threadleaf Agalinis, Threadleaf False Foxglove, Sandhills Gerardia


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image of Agalinis setacea, Threadleaf Gerardia, Threadleaf Agalinis, Threadleaf False Foxglove, Sandhills Gerardia

Will Stuart    wil_2884241457_fdb201b9ff

September    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

Corolla lobes all spreading, the throat lanose at base of upper corolla lobes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Agalinis setacea, Threadleaf Gerardia, Threadleaf Agalinis, Threadleaf False Foxglove, Sandhills Gerardia

Will Stuart    wil_2885076700_58c5e10908

September    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

Pedicels usually 15-25mm long. Calyx tube truncate, lobes subulate, < 1mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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image of Agalinis setacea, Threadleaf Gerardia, Threadleaf Agalinis, Threadleaf False Foxglove, Sandhills Gerardia

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_agalinis_setacea_4

October        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis setacea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen [& Franck], 2015 et seq.)
Agalinis obtusifolia

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-007:
Agalinis setacea   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Gerardia setacea

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2977

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, other dry forests and openings, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain & Carolina Piedmont (uncommon in SC Mtns) (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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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:
Fall
Capsule

 

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