3057

Forb
Annual

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare in GA-NC-SC

Look for it in wet pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite & scale-like, or absent

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rose-lavender (throat lined with yellow & spotted with purple)
Bisexual
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted corolla with broad campanulate tube
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Flowers in terminal racemes

FRUIT:
Fall
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p100
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p270

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Agalinis aphylla   FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis aphylla   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 166-25-006:
Agalinis aphylla   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Scrophulariaceae of eastern temperate North America (F.W. Pennell, 1935)
Gerardia aphylla