Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Agalinis aphylla
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
As the scientific name indicates, this species has essentially no leaves, and the few that are present are simply bract-like, barely 1/10" long and appressed to the stem. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis aphylla
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-006:
Agalinis aphylla
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Scrophulariaceae of eastern temperate North America (F.W. Pennell, 1935)
Gerardia aphylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Agalinis aphylla
COMMON NAME:
Scaleleaf Gerardia, Scaleleaf Agalinis, Scaleleaf False Foxglove
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Agalinis aphylla
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis aphylla
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-006:
Agalinis aphylla
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Scrophulariaceae of eastern temperate North America (F.W. Pennell, 1935)
Gerardia aphylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Agalinis aphylla
3057
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare (an endemic)
Look for it in wet pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite & scale-like, or absent
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rose-lavender
(throat lined with yellow & spotted with purple)
Bisexual
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted corolla with broad campanulate tube
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Flowers in terminal racemes
FRUIT:
Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!