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Your search found 33 taxa in the family Orobanchaceae, Broomrape family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
American Bluehearts, Prairie Bluehearts, Plains Bluehearts, Buchnera
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Buchnera americana FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Buchnera americana FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Buchnera americana 166-21-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Dry (seasonally moist) rocky, gravelly, or clayey soil of limestone glades, glades over mafic rock (such as diabase, gabbro, etc.), sand prairies, wet meadows, sandy roadsides
Rare (historically in NC Piedmont, but not recently seen)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Savanna Bluehearts, Florida Bluehearts, Buchnera
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Buchnera floridana FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Buchnera americana FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Buchnera floridana 166-21-002 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Pine savannas, flatwoods, seepage bogs, sandy roadsides
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Asiatic Witchweed
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Striga asiatica FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Striga asiatica FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Striga lutea 166-22-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Cultivated fields, parasitic on the roots of corn and other grasses
Rare
Non-native: Old World
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Common Name:
Senna Seymeria, Yaupon Black-senna
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Seymeria cassioides FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Seymeria cassioides FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Seymeria cassioides 166-23-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Dry to moist pinelands, wet pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands, an obligate hemiparasite on Pinus spp
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Comb Seymeria, Combleaf Black-senna, Yaupon Black-senna, Florida Black-senna
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Seymeria pectinata ssp. pectinata FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Seymeria pectinata ssp. pectinata FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Seymeria pectinata 166-23-002 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Dry pinelands, longleaf pine sandhills, dry to moist pine flatwoods
Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont) (historically in NC, but not recently seen)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Fernleaf False Foxglove, Annual Oak-leach, Fernleaf Yellow False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aureolaria pedicularia FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Aureolaria pedicularia + FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Aureolaria pedicularia 166-24-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Oak forests and woodlands, hemiparasitic on oaks and heaths
Common in Carolinas, rare in GA
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Oak-leach, Sticky False Foxglove, Combleaf Yellow False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aureolaria pectinata FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Aureolaria pectinata FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Aureolaria pectinata 166-24-002 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Turkey oak sandhills, Florida scrub, other dry oak forests and woodlands, barrens
Common in GA & SC (uncommon in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Downy False Foxglove, Downy Oak-leach, Virginia Oak-leach, Downy Yellow False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aureolaria virginica FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Aureolaria virginica FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Aureolaria virginica 166-24-003 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Oak forests and woodlands, hemiparasitic on Quercus subgenus Quercus
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Oak-leach, Smooth False Foxglove, Entireleaf Yellow False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aureolaria levigata FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS National Database: Aureolaria laevigata FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Aureolaria laevigata 166-24-004 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Oak forests and woodlands
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth False Foxglove, Smooth Oak-leach, Smooth Yellow False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Aureolaria flava FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Aureolaria flava var. flava FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Aureolaria flava 166-24-005 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Oak forests and woodlands, hemiparasitic on Quercus subgenus Quercus
Common in Mountains, common in Piedmont of GA & SC (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cumberland Oak-leach, Spreading Yellow False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aureolaria patula FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Aureolaria patula FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Calcareous ledges, and bluffs, rich alluvial forests
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Flaxleaf Gerardia, Scaleleaf Agalinis, Flaxleaf False Foxglove, Flaxleaf Agalinis
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis linifolia FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Agalinis linifolia FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis linifolia 166-25-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Coastal Plain depression ponds, cypress savannas, wet pine savannas
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Seaside Gerardia, Southern Saltmarsh Agalinis, Saltmarsh False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis maritima 166-25-002 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Tidal marshes
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis purpurea FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Agalinis purpurea FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis purpurea 166-25-003 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Woodlands, wet meadows, roadsides, in a wide variety of open habitats
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wand Gerardia, Wand Agalinis, Pine-barren False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis virgata FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Agalinis fasciculata FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis virgata 166-25-004 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Drawdown zones of pineland ponds
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fascicled Purple Gerardia, Southeastern Agalinis, Beach False Foxglove, Fascicled Gerardia
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis fasciculata var. fasciculata FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Agalinis fasciculata FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis fasciculata 166-25-005 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, pine savannas, prairies, barrens, oak savannas, disturbed sandy areas, roadsides
Common (uncommon in SC Piedmont) (rare in NC Mtns & NC Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Scaleleaf Gerardia, Scaleleaf Agalinis, Scaleleaf False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis aphylla FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Agalinis aphylla FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis aphylla 166-25-006 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Wet pine savannas
Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Threadleaf Gerardia, Threadleaf Agalinis, Threadleaf False Foxglove, Sandhills Gerardia
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis setacea FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Agalinis setacea FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis setacea 166-25-007 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, other dry forests and openings
Common in Coastal Plain & Carolina Piedmont (uncommon in SC Mtns) (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Gerardia, Slenderleaf Agalinis, Slender False Foxglove, Slender Gerardia
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis tenuifolia FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Agalinis tenuifolia var. tenuifolia FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis tenuifolia 166-25-008 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Wooded slopes, savannas, granitic outcrops, roadsides, other dry habitats
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Bluntleaf Gerardia, Bluntleaf Agalinis, Bluntleaf False Foxglove, Tenlobe False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis obtusifolia FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Agalinis obtusifolia FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis obtusifolia 166-25-009 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, sandhill seeps, bogs, Black Belt prairies
Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tenlobe Gerardia, Sandplain Agalinis, Tenlobe False Falseglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis decemloba FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Agalinis obtusifolia FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis decemloba 166-25-011 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Dry clayey or sandy woodlands, coastal sand plains
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Gattinger's Gerardia, Midwestern Agalinis, Gattinger's Agalinis, Gattinger's False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agalinis gattingeri FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Agalinis gattingeri FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Barrens, glades, outcrops, woodlands
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Mullein Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Dasistoma macrophyllum FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS National Database: Dasistoma macrophylla FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Dasistoma macrophylla 166-26-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Xeric to dry-mesic woodlands and bluffs, riverbanks, streambanks, over limestone or diabase
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Chaffseed
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Schwalbea americana FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schwalbea americana FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Schwalbea americana 166-27-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Pine savannas, sandhill-pocosin ecotones (in the uphill portions), mesic loamy-soil slopes or swales in sandhill longleaf pine woodlands, fire-maintained interior woodlands and barrens
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Indian Paintbrush, Scarlet Indian Paintbrush, Eastern Paintbrush
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Castilleja coccinea FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Castilleja coccinea FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Castilleja coccinea 166-28-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Woodlands, fens, barrens, rock outcrops, prairies, hay meadows, wet pastures, grassy openings, usually over mafic rocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wood-betony, Eastern Lousewort, Fernleaf, Canadian Lousewort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Pedicularis canadensis FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Pedicularis canadensis ssp. canadensis FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Pedicularis canadensis 166-29-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Moist to dry forests and woodlands, streambanks, prairies
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Lousewort, Swamp Wood-betony
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Pedicularis lanceolata FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Pedicularis lanceolata FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Pedicularis lanceolata 166-29-002 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Fens, springheads, wet meadows, marshes, and swampy areas, over calcareous, mafic, or ultramafic rocks
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cow-wheat
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Melampyrum lineare FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Melampyrum lineare FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Melampyrum lineare 166-30-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Habitat: Dry rocky or sandy soils, including ridgetop woodlands, heath balds, sandy areas in the Coastal Plain from e. VA northwards, and in thin soils around rock outcrops (especially on granitic domes in the Blue Ridge south of the Asheville Basin)
Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Beechdrops
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Epifagus virginiana FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Epifagus virginiana FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Epifagus virginiana 169-01-001 FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
Habitat: Moist to rather dry forests under and parasitic on Fagus grandifolia
Common (uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain) (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Squawroot, Bearcorn, Oakdrops
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Conopholis americana FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Conopholis americana FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Conopholis americana 169-02-001 FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
Habitat: Rich, moist forests, under and hemiparasitic on Quercus species
Common in Mountains, uncommon or rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
One-flowered Cancer-root, One-flowered Broomrape, Ghostpipe
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Aphyllon uniflorum FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Orobanche uniflora FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Orobanche uniflora 169-03-001 FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
Habitat: In a wide diversity of forests
Common in NC Mountains (uncommon elsewhere in NC); uncommon in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Lesser Broomrape, Small Broomrape, Hellroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Orobanche minor FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Orobanche minor FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Orobanche minor 169-03-002 FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
Habitat: Mesic hammocks, cultivated fields, parasitic on various hosts, especially Trifolium, Nicotiana tabacum, and Solanum lycopersicum
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name: Branching Broomrape, Hemp Broomrape, Branched Broomrape
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Phelipanche ramosa FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Orobanche ramosa FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Asia
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