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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Aureolaria virginica
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
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.
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gevi10_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm160531_030
May Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0403
May Greenville County SC
Lower leaves lance-ovate, sometimes with lobes or teeth, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0405
May Greenville County SC
Stem square, pubescent, rigid, brittle. Lower stem lvs petiolate, opposite, per Alabama Plant Atlas.
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JK Marlow jkm210624_1575
June Greenville County SC
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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
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JK Marlow jkm120727_927
July Spartanburg County SC
Finely downy throughout, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm120727_931
July Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120727_935
July Spartanburg County SC
Inflorescence, pedicels, and/or calyx pubescent with nonglandular hairs, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120728_038
July Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
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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.
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm120728_044
July Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
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JK Marlow jkm120728_045
July Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
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JK Marlow jkm220701_8795
July Greenville County SC
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm151108_660
November Oconee County SC
Plants turn blackish-brown in autumn, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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JK Marlow jkm181104_5585b
November Oconee County SC
Capsule broadly ovoid, pubescent; pedicels often to 6mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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
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Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in oak forests & woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite or subopposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Bisexual
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Flowers solitary in upper and middle leaf axils
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p234
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p092
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p171
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p227
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p237
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p280
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p152
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p138