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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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in dry (seasonally moist) rocky, gravelly, or clayey soil of limestone glades, galdes over mafic rock (such as diabase, gabbro, etc.), wet meadows, sandy roadsides
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Savanna Bluehearts, Florida Bluehearts, Buchnera
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in pine savannas, flatwoods, seepage bogs, sandy roadsides
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Asiatic Witchweed
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in cultivated fields, parasitic on the roots of corn & other grasses
Rare. A serious weed, targeted for eradication since it arrived here in the 50s.
Non-native: Old World
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Common Name:
Senna Seymeria, Yaupon Black-senna
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in dry to moist pinelands, wet pine savannas, sandhills, other dry woodlands
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Seymeria
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Seymeria pectinata + FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Seymeria pectinata + FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Seymeria pectinata 166-23-002 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Look for it in dry dry pinelands, sandhills
Native to Carolinas & Georgia (ssp. pectinata), to Florida (ssp. peninsularis)
Common Name:
Fernleaf False Foxglove, Annual Oak-leach, Fernleaf Yellow False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in oak forests & woodlands
Common (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: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in turkey oak sandhills, other dry oak forests & woodlands
Common
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: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in oak forests & woodlands
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: (2/8/20) 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
Look for it in 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, Eastern Smooth Oak-leach, Smooth Yellow False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in oak forests & woodlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cumberland Oak-leach, Spreading Yellow False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Aureolaria patula FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Aureolaria patula FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Look for it in 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: (10/20/20) 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
Look for it in Coastal Plain depression ponds, cypress savannas, wet pine savannas
Uncommon (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Seaside Gerardia, Southern Saltmarsh Agalinis, Saltmarsh False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) 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
Look for it in tidal marshes
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Gerardia, Common Agalinis, Purple False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) 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
Look for it in woodlands, on 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: (10/20/20) 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
Look for it in pine savannas
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: (10/20/20) Agalinis fasciculata FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Agalinis fasciculata FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agalinis fasciculata 166-25-005 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, pine savannas, prairies, barrens, oak savannas, disturbed sandy areas, roadsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Scaleleaf Gerardia, Scaleleaf Agalinis, Scaleleaf False Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) 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
Look for it in wet pine savannas
Rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Threadleaf Gerardia, Threadleaf Agalinis, Threadleaf False Foxglove, Sandhills Gerardia
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) 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
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub, other dry forests and openings
Common (uncommon in Mountains, rare in GA Mtns & Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Gerardia, Slenderleaf Agalinis, Slender False Foxglove, Slender Gerardia
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) 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
Look for it on wooded slopes, in savannas, on granitic outcrops, roadsides, other dry habitats
Common (rare in 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: (10/20/20) 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
Look for it in pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, sandhill seeps, disturbed areas
Common in GA-SC Coastal Plain (uncommon or rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tenlobe Gerardia, Sandplain Agalinis, Tenlobe False Falseglove
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) 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
Look for it in 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: (10/20/20) Agalinis gattingeri FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Agalinis gattingeri FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Look for it in barrens, glades, outcrops, woodlands
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Mullein Foxglove
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Dasistoma macrophylla FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Dasistoma macrophylla FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Dasistoma macrophylla 166-26-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Look for it in xeric to dry-mesic woodlands and bluffs, riverbanks, over limestone or diabase
Rare, endemic to southeastern North America
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Chaffseed
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in 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
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in woodlands, fens, barrens, rock outcrops, meadows, wet pastures, grassy openings, usually over mafic rocks
Uncommon in NC Mtns & Piedmont, rare elsewhere in our area
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wood Betony, Eastern Lousewort, Fernleaf, Canadian Lousewort
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) 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
Look for it in moist to dry forests & woodlands, streambanks
Common (uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Swamp Lousewort
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in springheads 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: (2/8/20) Melampyrum lineare FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Melampyrum lineare var. latifolium FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Melampyrum lineare 166-30-001 FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae
Look for it in 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)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Beechdrops
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in moist to rather dry forests under Fagus grandifolia
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Squawroot, Bearcorn
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it in rich moist forests, under 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
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Aphyllon uniflorum FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Orobanche uniflora FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Orobanche uniflora 169-03-001 FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
Look for it in a wide diversity of forests
Uncommon in NC (but common in NC Mtns), rare in GA-SC (but uncommon in GA Mtns)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Lesser Broomrape, Small Broomrape
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) 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
Look for it on mesic hammocks, in 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: (5/21/15) Phelipanche ramosa FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Orobanche ramosa FAMILY: Orobanchaceae
Look for it in disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Asia
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