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Synonym: ''Gerardia pulcherrima''<ref name="USDA"/><ref name="Weakley 2015"/>
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Synonym: ''Gerardia pulchella'' Pennell.<ref name="Weakley 2015"/>
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''Agalinis pulchella'' is a dioecious annual forb.<ref name="USDA"/> It is dull green to purplish with stems 6-10 dm tall. Leaves are opposite, or sub-opposite, spreading, narrowly linear, acute, entire, with stems 2-3 cm long. Seeds are 0.5-0.7 mm long and broadly triangular to quadrangular.<ref name="Pennell 1929"/> Cotyledons are orbicular to orbicular-ovate and 0.8-1.3 mm wide and long.<ref name="Canne 1983">Canne JM (1983) The taxonomic significance of seedling morphology in ''Agalinis'' (Scrophulariaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 61:1868-1874.</ref> Seeds have a striate-tuberculate radial wall.<ref name="Canne 1979">Canne JM (1979) A light and scanning electron microscope study of seed morphology in ''Agalinis'' (Scrophulariaceae) and its taxonomic significance. Systematic Botany 4(4):281-296.</ref>
  
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This species is found from Texas, eastward to Florida and Georgia.<ref name="USDA"/><ref name="Pennell 1929"/>
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''A. pulchella'' is found in pine savannas and sandhills of the southeast.<ref name="Weakley 2015">Weakley AS (2015) Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Herbarium.</ref>
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''A. pulchella'' is found in pine savannas and sandhills of the southeastern United States.<ref name="Weakley 2015">Weakley AS (2015) Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Herbarium.</ref> It has also been described as occurring in dry open sandy longleaf-pinelands on the southeastern coastal plain.<ref name="Pennell 1929"/> It has also been observed in clearcut areas in a soil disturbed sand ridge. <ref name= "Herbarium"/>
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In North America, this species flowers in September and fruits in October.<ref name= "Herbarium"> Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: March 2019. Collectors: R. K. Godfrey and Roy Komarek. States and counties: Florida: Liberty. Georgia: Thomas. </ref><ref name="Pennell 1929">Pennell FW (1929) ''Agalinis'' and allies in North America: II. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 81:111-249.</ref>
 
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Members of the ''Agalinis'' genus host larvae of the common buckeye butterfly (''Junonia coenia'') in Florida.<ref name="Hammer 2016">Observation by Roger Hammer in Silver Springs State Park, Marion County, FL. September 2016, posted to Florida Flora and Ecosystematics Facebook Group August 4, 2017.</ref>
 
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==References and notes==
 
==References and notes==

Latest revision as of 11:07, 15 July 2022

Agalinis pulchella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Order: Scrophulariales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Agalinis
Species: A. pulchella
Binomial name
Agalinis pulchella
Pennell
AGAL PULC DIST.JPG
Natural range of Agalinis pulchella from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: St. Mark's false foxglove[1]

Taxonomic Notes

Synonym: Gerardia pulchella Pennell.[2]

Description

Agalinis pulchella is a dioecious annual forb.[1] It is dull green to purplish with stems 6-10 dm tall. Leaves are opposite, or sub-opposite, spreading, narrowly linear, acute, entire, with stems 2-3 cm long. Seeds are 0.5-0.7 mm long and broadly triangular to quadrangular.[3] Cotyledons are orbicular to orbicular-ovate and 0.8-1.3 mm wide and long.[4] Seeds have a striate-tuberculate radial wall.[5]

Distribution

This species is found from Texas, eastward to Florida and Georgia.[1][3]

Ecology

Habitat

A. pulchella is found in pine savannas and sandhills of the southeastern United States.[2] It has also been described as occurring in dry open sandy longleaf-pinelands on the southeastern coastal plain.[3] It has also been observed in clearcut areas in a soil disturbed sand ridge. [6]

Phenology

In North America, this species flowers in September and fruits in October.[6][3]

Herbivory and toxicology

Members of the Agalinis genus host larvae of the common buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia) in Florida.[7]

Conservation, cultivation, and restoration

Cultural use

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 USDA NRCS (2016) The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 26 January 2018). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Weakley AS (2015) Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Herbarium.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Pennell FW (1929) Agalinis and allies in North America: II. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 81:111-249.
  4. Canne JM (1983) The taxonomic significance of seedling morphology in Agalinis (Scrophulariaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 61:1868-1874.
  5. Canne JM (1979) A light and scanning electron microscope study of seed morphology in Agalinis (Scrophulariaceae) and its taxonomic significance. Systematic Botany 4(4):281-296.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: March 2019. Collectors: R. K. Godfrey and Roy Komarek. States and counties: Florida: Liberty. Georgia: Thomas.
  7. Observation by Roger Hammer in Silver Springs State Park, Marion County, FL. September 2016, posted to Florida Flora and Ecosystematics Facebook Group August 4, 2017.