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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Agalinis gattingeri
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis gattingeri
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agalinis gattingeri
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Agalinis gattingeri
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agalinis gattingeri
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Gerardia gattingeri
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agalinis gattingeri
COMMON NAME:
Gattinger's Gerardia, Midwestern Agalinis, Gattinger's Agalinis, Gattinger's False Foxglove
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_agga_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Agalinis gattingeri
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis gattingeri
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agalinis gattingeri
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Agalinis gattingeri
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agalinis gattingeri
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Gerardia gattingeri
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agalinis gattingeri
4399
Forb
Annual
Habitat: barrens, glades, outcrops, woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink to purplish
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted 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!
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p235
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p279
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