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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
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 Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agalinis purpurea var. purpurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Agalinis purpurea var. purpurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agalinis purpurea
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 (4/14/23):
Agalinis purpurea
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis purpurea
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agalinis purpurea var. purpurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Agalinis purpurea var. purpurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agalinis purpurea
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
Common
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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:
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
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