Agalinis divaricata

Agalinis divaricata
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
Natural range of Agalinis divaricata from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Description

Common names: Pineland False Foxglove; Little Gerardia

Synonym names: Gerardia divaricata Chapm.

It is an annual and flowers in the fall (Hall 1993). It flowers summer to fall (Wunderlin and Hansen 2003).

Distribution

Infrequent in central, north, and west Florida. Found from: West to Mississippi, east to Alabama (Hall 1993).

Ecology

Habitat

It occurs primarily in well drained sands and loamy sands of pine-oak sandhill communities, sand dunes and interdune hollows (Entisols), and pine flatwoods communities (Spodosols). It requires high light. It thrives in frequently burned areas (FSU herbarium). It is found in dry, scrub pinelands (Hall 1993). It is found in dry pine-oak savannas, sandhills, and mesic bog margins (Wunderlin and Hansen 2003).

Conservation and Management

Requires fire or other vegetation-removing disturbance to maintain high light levels and reduced competition. Does not appear to be common in areas with a great deal of soil disturbance, although it occurs along roadsides and ditches (FSU herbarium).

References and notes

FSU herbarium http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu/

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.

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.