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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 linifolia   FAMILY Orobanchaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis linifolia   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

Agalinis linifolia

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

Agalinis linifolia

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

Agalinis linifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-001:

Agalinis linifolia   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

Gerardia linifolia

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

Agalinis linifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Flaxleaf Gerardia, Scaleleaf Agalinis, Flaxleaf False Foxglove, Flaxleaf Agalinis


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image of Agalinis linifolia, Flaxleaf Gerardia, Scaleleaf Agalinis, Flaxleaf False Foxglove, Flaxleaf Agalinis

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_agli2_001_lvd

        

image of Agalinis linifolia, Flaxleaf Gerardia, Scaleleaf Agalinis, Flaxleaf False Foxglove, Flaxleaf Agalinis

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_agalinis_linifolia3

September    Onslow County    NC

Flowers in racemes, 1-2 per node. Corolla tube lacks yellow lines, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

image of Agalinis linifolia, Flaxleaf Gerardia, Scaleleaf Agalinis, Flaxleaf False Foxglove, Flaxleaf Agalinis

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_agalinis_linifolia4

September    Onslow County    NC

image of Agalinis linifolia, Flaxleaf Gerardia, Scaleleaf Agalinis, Flaxleaf False Foxglove, Flaxleaf Agalinis

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_agalinis_linifolia4b

September    Onslow County    NC

Leaves linear, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis linifolia   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-001:
Agalinis linifolia   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Gerardia linifolia

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2988

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Coastal Plain depression ponds, cypress savannas, wet pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes slender

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rose-lavender (rarely white) (throat not lined with yellow)
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted corolla with broad campanulate tube
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in terminal racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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