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==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
| − | + | ''Agalinus divartica'' is infrequent in central, north, and west Florida, but is endemic to Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida<ref name="hall"/>. It is listed as critically imperiled in Alabama and Georgia.<ref name="natureserve">[[http://explorer.natureserve.org/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Agalinis+divaricata]]NatureServe. Accessed: March 21, 2016</ref> | |
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| + | On the Florida panhandle and northern peninsula, observations have been made from Santa Rosa county<ref name="Hammer 2016"/><ref name="Davis 2003">Observation by Kim Davis in Blackwater Forest and Garcon Point Nature Trail, Santa Rosa County, FL, September 19-28, 2003, posted to Florida Flora and Ecosystematics Facebook Group September 20126.</ref>, eastward to Leon and Wakulla, and in Levy, Alachua, Marion, Citrus, and Hernando counties.<ref name="Hammer 2016"/> | ||
==Ecology== | ==Ecology== | ||
Revision as of 14:12, 18 June 2021
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| Photo by Michelle Smith at Torreya State Park | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Orobancheaceae |
| Genus: | Agalinis |
| Species: | A. divaricata |
| Binomial name | |
| Agalinis divaricata (Chapm.) Pennell | |
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| Natural range of Agalinis divaricata from USDA NRCS Plants Database. | |
Common names: pineland false foxglove, little gerardia
Contents
Taxonomic notes
Synonym: Gerardia divaricata Chapm.[1]
Description
It is an annual and flowers in the summer and fall.[2][3]
Distribution
Agalinus divartica is infrequent in central, north, and west Florida, but is endemic to Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida[2]. It is listed as critically imperiled in Alabama and Georgia.[4]
On the Florida panhandle and northern peninsula, observations have been made from Santa Rosa county[5][6], eastward to Leon and Wakulla, and in Levy, Alachua, Marion, Citrus, and Hernando counties.[5]
Ecology
Habitat
It occurs primarily in well drained sands and loamy sands of pine-oak sandhill communities, sand dunes and interdune hollows (Entisols), pine flatwoods communities (Spodosols), and other well drained areas. It thrives in frequently burned areas.[7] It is found in dry, scrub pinelands.[2] It is found in dry pine-oak savannas, sandhills, and mesic bog margins.[3] A. divaricata is also found in human disturbed areas such as pine plantations, old fields, and along roadside edges and ditches. It does well in high levels of light.[7]
Associated species: Morella cerifera, Agalinis pulchella, Agalinis aphylla, Agalinis tenuifolia, Agalinis plukenetii, Quercus laevis, Aristida stricta, Liatris gracilis, and others.[7]
Agalinis divaricata is an indicator species for the Panhandle Silty Longleaf Woodlands community type as described in Carr et al. (2010).[8]
Phenology
Agalinis divaricata has been observed to flower between September to December with the peak of inflorescence in October.[9][5]
Fire ecology
It thrives in frequently burned areas.[7]
Use by animals
Like other Agalinis species, A. divaricata hosts larvae of the common buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia) in Florida.[5]
Conservation, cultivation, and restoration
A. divaricata requires fire or other vegetation-removing disturbance to maintain high light levels in the habitat which also reduces competition. It does not appear to be common in areas with a great deal of soil disturbance, although it occurs along roadsides and ditches.[7] This species is highly threatened by land-use conversion, habitat fragmentation and forest management practices.[4]
Cultural use
Photo gallery
References and notes
- ↑ Weakley, A.S. 2015. Flora of the southern and mid-Atlantic states. Working Draft of 21 May 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hall, David W. Illustrated Plants of Florida and the Coastal Plain: based on the collections of Leland and Lucy Baltzell. 1993. A Maupin House Book. Gainesville. 341. Print.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wunderlin, Richard P. and Bruce F. Hansen. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida. Second edition. 2003. University Press of Florida: Gainesville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton/Pensacola/Orlando/Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Myers. 546. Print.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 [[1]]NatureServe. Accessed: March 21, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 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.
- ↑ Observation by Kim Davis in Blackwater Forest and Garcon Point Nature Trail, Santa Rosa County, FL, September 19-28, 2003, posted to Florida Flora and Ecosystematics Facebook Group September 20126.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 .Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2014. Collectors: Sidney McDaniel, Andre F. Clewell, Robert K. Godfrey, Paul O. Schallert, J. M. Canne, John Morrill, Loran C. Anderson, J. Hays, Robert Kral, Jean W. Wooten, H. E. Grelen, John C. Semple, L. Brouillet, Wilson Baker, H. Roth, V Craig, Bill Boothe, Marcia Boothe, R. A. Norris, and T. MacClendon. States and Counties: Florida: Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Levy, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington.
- ↑ Carr, S.C., K.M. Robertson, and R.K. Peet. 2010. A vegetation classification of fire-dependent pinelands of Florida. Castanea 75:153-189.
- ↑ Nelson, G. PanFlora: Plant data for the eastern United States with emphasis on the Southeastern Coastal Plains, Florida, and the Florida Panhandle. www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Accessed: 6 DEC 2016
