Nuttallanthus floridanus

(Chapman) D. A. Sutton

Revis. Antirrhineae, 461. 1988.

Common names: Apalachicola or Florida toadflax
WeedyEndemic
Basionym: Linaria floridana Chapman Fl. South. U.S., 290. 1860
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 41.

Fertile stems 1–5, simple, sometimes distally branched, 9–45 cm. Leaves: blades of sterile-stem leaves elliptic to obovate, 1–6 × 0.5–2.8 mm, blades of fertile-stem leaves linear, 5–32 × 0.4–0.9 (–1.4) mm. Racemes 1–11 cm; bracts narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1–3.5 (–5) mm. Pedicels ascending, sometimes erect, 6–14 mm in fruit, sparsely to densely glandular-pubescent, hairs to 0.3 mm. Flowers: calyx lobes lanceolate, 1.3–2.8 × 0.3–0.7 mm, sparsely to densely glandular-pubescent; corolla blue, 5–9 mm, spurs straight, 0.1–0.5 mm, abaxial lip 3–4.5 mm, adaxial 1–3.4 mm. Capsules oblong-globular, 2–3.7 × 1.8–3 mm. Seeds black, 0.3–0.5 mm, edges rounded, faces obscurely tuberculate.


Phenology: Flowering Mar–Apr.
Habitat: Sandy woodlands, scrublands, sandhills, coastal dunes.
Elevation: 0–100 m.

Discussion

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Nuttallanthus floridanus"
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.34 cm3.4 mm <br />0.0034 m <br />) +
Craig C. Freeman +
(Chapman) D. A. Sutton +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
Linaria floridana +
0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br /> (0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (3.2 cm32 mm <br />0.032 m <br />) +
elliptic;obovate +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br />) +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
narrowly lanceolate;narrowly elliptic +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
1.3mm;2.8mm +
glandular-pubescent +
0.3mm;0.7mm +
short-cupulate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.37 cm3.7 mm <br />0.0037 m <br />) +
oblong-globular +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Apalachicola or Florida toadflax +
personate +  and bilabiate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
Ala. +, Fla. +, Ga. +  and Miss. +
drupe-like +
rounded +
0–100 m. +
curved +  and straight +
tuberculate +
1 +  and 4 +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.48 cm4.8 mm <br />0.0048 m <br />) +
Sandy woodlands, scrublands, sandhills, coastal dunes. +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
terminal +  and axillary +
whorled +  and alternate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
lanceolate;narrowly ovate or oblong +
entire +  and subentire toothed or lobed +
axile +  and parietal +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
erect +  and ascending +
glandular-pubescent +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
5 +  and 4 +
essentially +
Flowering Mar–Apr. +
Revis. Antirrhineae, +
spikelike +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (11 cm110 mm <br />0.11 m <br />) +
minute +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
Weedy +  and Endemic +
straight +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
branched +  and simple +
climbing +  and scrambling +
decumbent to ascending +  and prostrate +
glandular-pubescent +  and glabrous +
9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br /> (45 cm450 mm <br />0.45 m <br />) +
Nuttallanthus floridanus +
Nuttallanthus +
species +
not gibbous +
biennial +  and annual +