Agalinis pulchella

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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 pulcherrima[1][2]

Description

Agalinis pulchella is a dioecious annual that grows as a forb/herb.[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 were 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]

Ecology

Habitat

A. pulchella is found in pine savannas and sandhills of the southeastern United States.[2]

Phenology

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

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

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References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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 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.