4399

Forb
Annual

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare

Look for it in barrens, glades, outcrops, woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink to purplish
Bisexual
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted campanulate corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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

• Wildflowers of Tennessee p235
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p279

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Agalinis gattingeri   FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis gattingeri   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Gerardia gattingeri

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Agalinis gattingeri