Agalinis filifolia

Agalinis filifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class:	Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Orobanchaceae
Genus:	Agalinis
Species:	A. filifolia
Binomial name
Agalinis filifolia (Nutt.) Raf.
Natural range of Agalinis filifolia from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Description

Common names: Seminole False Foxglove; Fine-leaf Gerardia

Synonym names: Gerardia filifolia Nutt.

It is an annual (Hall 1993).

Distribution

It is frequent in all of Florida; north to Georgia and Alabama (Hall 1993).

Ecology

Habitat

This species is found in sandhills and coastal scrub (Wunderlin and Hansen 2003). It is also found in longleaf pine savannas, sandy pinewoods and barrens, and on sand dunes, flats, and interdune hollows. Other habitat includes open stands of evergreen oak shrub, flatwoods, saw-palmetto woods, borders of titi bogs, and in dry sandy scrub that borders mesic woodlands (FSU Herbarium). Agalinis filifolia is somewhat shade tolerant and found in a variety of moisture conditions, from dry to wet (Hall 1993). It is observed in mainly sandy soils, including loamy sand. It can also be found in disturbed habitat, including clear-cuts and pine plantations, roadside banks and ditches, and clearings for power lines (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

This species has been observed flowering August through October, and fruiting August through November (FSU Herbarium).

Pollination

Mark Deyrup at Archbold Biological Station observed these Hymenoptera species on Agalinis filifolia:

Apidae: Apis mellifera

Apidae: Bombus impatiens

Apidae: Bombus pennsylvanicus

Halictidae: Agapostemon spledens

Halicitade: Augochlorella aurata

Halicitade: Augochlorella gratiosa

Halicitade: Lasioglossum coreopsis

Halicitade: Lasioglossum miniatulus

Halicitade: Lasioglossum nymphalis

Halicitade: Lasioglossum placidensis

Halicitade: Lasioglossum puteulanum

Megachilidae: Megachile brevis psedudobrevis

Megachilidae: Megachile mendica

Megachilidae: Megachile petulans

Megachilidae: Megachile texana

References and notes

Collectors: Sidney M. Daniel, Robert K. Godfrey, R. Kral, Loran C. Anderson, J. B. Hilmon, J. M. Canne, Mark A. Garland, Gary R. Knight, Nancy Endmonson, Cecil R. Slaughter, and Jean W. Wooten.

Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2014.

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.

States and Counties: Florida: Wakulla, Franklin, Liberty, Bay, Escambia, Charlotte, Brevard, Nassau, Putnam, Sarasota, Taylor, Manatee, and Lake. Georgia: Thomas.

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.