OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Agalinis obtusifolia   FAMILY Orobanchaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis obtusifolia   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Agalinis obtusifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)

Agalinis obtusifolia

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Agalinis obtusifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-009:

Agalinis obtusifolia   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

Gerardia obtusifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Bluntleaf Gerardia, Bluntleaf Agalinis, Bluntleaf False Foxglove, Tenlobe False Foxglove


         To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.

image of Agalinis obtusifolia, Bluntleaf Gerardia, Bluntleaf Agalinis, Bluntleaf False Foxglove, Tenlobe False Foxglove

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_agpa16_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Agalinis obtusifolia   FAMILY Orobanchaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis obtusifolia   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agalinis obtusifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Agalinis obtusifolia

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agalinis obtusifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-009:
Agalinis obtusifolia   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3141

Forb
Annual

Habitat: pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, sandhill seeps, bogs, Black Belt prairies, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

map
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pale rose-lavender (throat not lined with yellow)
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted corolla with broad campanulate tube
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in terminal racemes

FRUIT:
Fall
Capsule

 

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



 


Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME: