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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
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Read about Seaside Gerardia from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Seaside Gerardia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-002:
Agalinis maritima FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Gerardia maritima
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia maritima var. grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
COMMON NAME:
Seaside Gerardia, Southern Saltmarsh Agalinis, Saltmarsh False Foxglove
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_agma3_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-002:
Agalinis maritima
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Gerardia maritima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia maritima var. grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
4222
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Tidal marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/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 terminal racemes
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
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