Agalinis linifolia

(Nuttall) Britton in J. K. Small

Fl. Miami, 167. 1913.

Common names: Coastal false foxglove
Endemic
Basionym: Gerardia linifolia Nuttall Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 47. 1818
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 546. Mentioned on page 534, 536, 539, 547.

Stems simple or branched, 70–160 cm; branches stiffly erect or arching-ascending, terete, faintly ridged, glabrous. Leaves strongly-ascending; blade linear-lanceolate, 10–50 x 1–3 mm, fleshy, margins entire, adaxial surface with sessile, dome-shaped hairs; axillary fascicles absent. Inflorescences racemes, elongate, flowers 1 or 2 per node, some flowers pseudoterminal; bracts both shorter and longer than, or longer than, pedicels. Pedicels strongly ascending, 5–25 mm, glabrous. Flowers: calyx narrowly campanulate, tube 4–6.5 mm, glabrous, lobes deltate, 0.5–0.9 mm; corolla pink, without 2 yellow lines and with dark-pink spots in abaxial throat, 25–35 mm, throat pilose externally and villous within across bases and sinus of adaxial lobes, lobes: abaxial spreading, adaxial reflexed-spreading, 6–14 mm, pilose or sparsely so externally; proximal and distal anthers parallel to filaments, pollen-sacs 2.8–5 mm; style exserted, 15–28 mm. Capsules subglobular to globular, 5–7 mm. Seeds dark-brown to blackish, 1.1–1.5 mm. 2n = 28.


Phenology: Flowering late Aug–early Oct.
Habitat: Wet savannas and prairies, depressed areas of mesic savannas or open flatwoods, bogs, margins and centers of cypress domes, margins of ponds, lakes, brackish and freshwater marshes, open stream banks, roadsides, ditches.
Elevation: 0–100 m.

Distribution

Ala., Del., Fla., Ga., La., Md., Miss., N.C., S.C., Va.

Discussion

Agalinis linifolia is the only perennial member of the genus in North America. It and A. maritima are the only obligate wetland species of Agalinis in eastern North America; both grow in standing water.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Agalinis linifolia"
rounded +  and gibbous +
reflexed-spreading +
sparsely +  and pilose +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Judith M. Canne-Hilliker† +  and John F. Hays +
(Nuttall) Britton in J. K. Small +
villous +  and pilose +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Gerardia linifolia +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
linear-lanceolate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
arching-ascending +  and erect +
ridged +  and terete +
campanulate +
subglobular;globular +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
Coastal false foxglove +
bilabiate +  and symmetric +
pilose +  and villous +
subrotate +, cylindric +, club--shaped +, salverform +, campanulate +  and tubular +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Ala. +, Del. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, La. +, Md. +, Miss. +, N.C. +, S.C. +  and Va. +
0–100 m. +
glabrate +  and lanate +
pseudoterminal +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Wet savannas and prairies, depressed areas of mesic savannas or open flatwoods, bogs, margins and centers of cypress domes, margins of ponds, lakes, brackish and freshwater marshes, open stream banks, roadsides, ditches. +
dome--shaped +
axillary +  and terminal +
alternate +, subopposite +  and opposite +
deciduous +
strongly-ascending +
villous +  and pilose +
deltate +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
2-pinnatifid +, pinnatifid +  and cleft +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
spikelike +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
Flowering late Aug–early Oct. +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
spikelike +
dark-brown;blackish +
60 +  and 600 +
0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
villous +  and pilose +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
subequal +
branched +  and simple +
aerial +  and subterranean +
leaning +  and erect +
sericeous +, glabrate +, hispid +  and glabrous +
papillate +  and scabridulous +
70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br /> (160 cm1,600 mm <br />1.6 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
Tomanthera +
Agalinis linifolia +
Agalinis +
species +
campanulate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.65 cm6.5 mm <br />0.0065 m <br />) +
perennial +  and annual +