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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Aureolaria flava
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Smooth False Foxglove at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Aureolaria flava var. flava
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Aureolaria flava var. flava
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Aureolaria flava var. macrantha
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Aureolaria flava
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Aureolaria flava var. flava
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Aureolaria flava var. macrantha
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-24-005:
Aureolaria flava FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia flava +
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aureolaria flava ssp. flava
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aureolaria flava ssp. reticulata
COMMON NAME:
Smooth False Foxglove, Smooth Oak-leach, Smooth Yellow False Foxglove
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gefl2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm180505_1835
May Pike County GA
Camp Thunder VPA
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JK Marlow jkm180505_1837
May Pike County GA
Camp Thunder VPA
Stem slightly to strongly glaucous (vs. A. levigata not glaucous), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm180505_1839
May Pike County GA
Camp Thunder VPA
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JK Marlow jkm210626_1703
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm210626_1705
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm210626_1706
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4945
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Lower leaves pinnately lobed, the sinuses extending over halfway to midrib, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4946
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_flava_yellow
September Gilmer-Murray Counties GA
Inflorescence, pedicels and calyx glabrous, flowering Aug-Sep, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
False-foxglove species
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_flava_yellow_b
September
Pedicels 4-25mm long at anthesis, upwardly curved, stout (about 1mm in diam), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm061029_029
October Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Pedicels upwardly curved. Capsule glabrous, 12-20mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm061029_049
October Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Upper leaves usually entire or serrate, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm181028_5376
October McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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JK Marlow jkm181028_5381
October McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
The seeds of A. flava, A. laevigata, and A. virginica are winged, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm131103_188
November Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Aureolaria flava
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Aureolaria flava var. flava
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Aureolaria flava var. flava
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Aureolaria flava var. macrantha
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Aureolaria flava
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Aureolaria flava var. flava
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Aureolaria flava var. macrantha
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-24-005:
Aureolaria flava
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia flava +
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aureolaria flava ssp. flava
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aureolaria flava ssp. reticulata
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Oak forests and woodlands, hemiparasitic on Quercus subgenus Quercus, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Mountains, common in Piedmont of GA & SC (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite or subopposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p199
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p116
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p256
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p278
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p057
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p233
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p151
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p092
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p271
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p236
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p280
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p153
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