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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dasistoma macrophyllum   FAMILY Orobanchaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dasistoma macrophylla   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Seymeria macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-26-001:

Dasistoma macrophylla   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Dasistoma macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) -

Dasystoma macrophylla

 

COMMON NAME:
Mullein Foxglove


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image of Dasistoma macrophyllum, Mullein Foxglove

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_afma_001_lvd

        

The genus is neuter (because ending in “-stoma”), per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Dasistoma macrophyllum, Mullein Foxglove

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_d_macrophylluma

July        

The five corolla lobes are widely spreading, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Dasistoma macrophyllum, Mullein Foxglove

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_d_macrophylluma_2

July        

Flowers densely hairy within, about 0.6" long, and last for one day, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dasistoma macrophyllum   FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dasistoma macrophylla   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Seymeria macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-26-001:
Dasistoma macrophylla   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Dasistoma macrophylla

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) -
Dasystoma macrophylla

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3617

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Xeric to dry-mesic woodlands and bluffs, riverbanks, streambanks, over limestone or diabase, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Slightly bilaterally symmetrical, nearly radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed funnelform corolla
4 included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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