Agalinis gattingeri

(Small) Small in N. L. Britton and A. Brown

Ill. Fl. N. U.S. ed. 2, 3: 213. 1913.

Common names: Midwest false foxglove
Endemic
Basionym: Gerardia gattingeri Small Fl. S.E. U.S., 1078, 1338. 1903
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 544. Mentioned on page 537, 553, 555.

Stems simple or branched, 10–60 cm; branches spreading-ascending, quadrangular-ridged, glabrate, scabridulous, or scabrous. Leaves spreading or arching; blade narrowly linear to filiform, 13–30 (–40) x 0.4–1.4 mm, not fleshy, margins entire, adaxial surface finely scabrous; axillary fascicles absent. Inflorescences racemiform, flowers 1 per node, sometimes with pseudoterminal flowers on lateral branches; bracts shorter than pedicels. Pedicels spreading-ascending, (4–) 8–35 mm, glabrous. Flowers: calyx turbinate to hemispheric, tube 2–4 mm, glabrous, sometimes hairy, lobes triangular-lanceolate, 0.5–1.4 (–2.6) mm; corolla pink to pale-purple, with 2 yellow lines and dark-pink spots in abaxial throat, 7–17 mm, throat pilose externally and villous within across bases and sinus of adaxial lobes, lobes: abaxial spreading, adaxial recurved, 3–5 mm, abaxial pilose externally, adaxial sparsely pilose or glabrous externally; proximal anthers parallel to filaments, distal perpendicular to filaments, pollen-sacs 1.3–2.5 mm; style exserted, 7–13 mm. Capsules globular-ovoid, 3.5–5 mm. Seeds yellowish tan, 0.7–1.2 mm. 2n = 26.


Phenology: Flowering mid Aug–Oct.
Habitat: Dry roadsides, open woodlands, forest margins, mesic prairies, glades, bluffs, exposed ridges, alvars, often in cherty limestone, or sandy, rocky soils.
Elevation: 0–500 m.

Distribution

Man., Ont., Ala., Ark., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., Nebr., Ohio, Okla., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wis.

Discussion

Plants of Agalinis gattingeri are most often confused with those of A. skinneriana and A. tenuifolia. They can be distinguished by features discussed under 33. A. tenuifolia. Agalinis gattingeri is also confused with A. skinneriana from which it can be separated by the mostly solitary flowers on lateral branches of A. gattingeri versus the well-formed central raceme of A. skinneriana; pink-purple corollas of A. gattingeri versus the pale pink to nearly white corollas of A. skinneriana; the flexible, well-branched stems of A. gattingeri versus the strict, brittle, mostly simple to few-branched stems of A. skinneriana; and the pilose abaxial corolla lobes in A. gattingeri versus the glabrous external corolla lobes of A. skinneriana. Isolated populations of A. gattingeri on the islands of Georgian Bay, Ontario, have calyx lobes to 2.6 mm and hairs on the calyx tube, characteristics not seen elsewhere in the species.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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rounded +  and gibbous +
glabrous +  and pilose +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Judith M. Canne-Hilliker† +  and John F. Hays +
(Small) Small in N. L. Britton and A. Brown +
Gerardia gattingeri +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
narrowly linear;filiform +
not fleshy +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br />) +
spreading-ascending +
scabrous +  and scabridulous +
quadrangular-ridged +
turbinate +  and hemispheric +
globular-ovoid +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Midwest false foxglove +
bilabiate +  and symmetric +
dark-pink spots +, pink +  and pale-purple +
subrotate +, cylindric +, club--shaped +, salverform +, campanulate +  and tubular +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br />) +
Man. +, Ont. +, Ala. +, Ark. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Ky. +, La. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, Nebr. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, Pa. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +  and Wis. +
0–500 m. +
glabrate +  and lanate +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Dry roadsides, open woodlands, forest margins, mesic prairies, glades, bluffs, exposed ridges, alvars, often in cherty limestone, or sandy, rocky soils. +
axillary +  and terminal +
alternate +, subopposite +  and opposite +
deciduous +
arching +  and spreading +
yellow;yellow;yellow +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.26 cm2.6 mm <br />0.0026 m <br />) +
triangular-lanceolate +
2-pinnatifid +, pinnatifid +  and cleft +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
spikelike +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
spreading-ascending +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
Flowering mid Aug–Oct. +
0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
Ill. Fl. N. U.S. ed. +
spikelike +
yellowish tan +
60 +  and 600 +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br />) +
subequal +
branched +  and simple +
aerial +  and subterranean +
leaning +  and erect +
sericeous +, glabrate +, hispid +  and glabrous +
papillate +  and scabridulous +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br />) +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
Tomanthera +
Agalinis gattingeri +
Agalinis +
species +
villous +  and pilose +
campanulate +
hairy +  and glabrous +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
perennial +  and annual +