Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about Downy False Foxglove from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Downy False Foxglove at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
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) 166-24-003:
Aureolaria virginica
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia virginica
COMMON NAME:
Downy False Foxglove, Downy Oak-leach, Virginia Oak-leach, Downy Yellow False Foxglove
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JK Marlow jkm0507m_25
July Oconee County SC
Roadside
Flowering May-July (vs. Aug-Sept for A. patula, laevigata, flava), per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
False-foxglove species
JK Marlow jkm120727_927
July Spartanburg County SC
Finely downy throughout, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
JK Marlow jkm120727_933
July Spartanburg County SC
Lower leaves lance-ovate, sometimes with lobes or teeth, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
JK Marlow jkm120727_935
July Spartanburg County SC
Inflorescence, pedicels, and/or calyx pubescent with nonglandular hairs, per Weakley's Flora.
JK Marlow jkm120728_042
July Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
Pedicels usually less than 3mm long at anthesis, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm120728_042b
July Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
Calyx lobes lanceolate, 3-10mm long, equaling or much longer than tube, entire, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm150822_861
August Oconee County SC
Brasstown Creek Heritage Preserve
Flowers have a tubular corolla with flaring lobes, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
JK Marlow jkm151108_660
November Oconee County SC
Plants turn blackish-brown in autumn, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
JK Marlow jkm181104_5585b
November Oconee County SC
Capsule broadly ovoid, pubescent; pedicels often to 6mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.