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Agalinis neoscotica

(Nova Scotia False-Foxglove)

Overview

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Threatened
Threat status

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Middleton False Foxglove, Nova Scotia False-Foxglove

Description

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Herbs, sometimes shrubs , rarely trees ; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled , or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple or sometimes pinnately dissected . Inflorescences racemes , spikes, or thyrsoid panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect , usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic . Calyx often persistent , (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate . Corolla sympetalous ; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous , sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal , free or confluent . Nectary often present at base of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland . Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous , rarely 2 per locule, on axile placentas, anatropous or hemitropous . Style simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal , loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores or irregularly dehiscent , rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous , sometimes winged ; testa often reticulate ; hilum lateral or ventral; endosperm fleshy or absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan ; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: June, July, August. • Flower Color: pink

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 6-12" tall.

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Growth

Culture: Space 6-9" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 6.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Agalinis paupercula var. neoscotica (Greene) Pennell & St. John
  2. Agalinis purpurea var. neoscotica (Greene) Boivin
  3. Gerardia neoscotica Greene
  4. Gerardia purpurea var. neoscotica (Greene) Gleason

Notes

Publishing author : B .Boivin Basionym author: (Greene) Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Agalinis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 120 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. acuta (Sandplain False Foxglove) · A. albida · A. angustifolia · A. aphylla (Coastal Plain False-Foxglove) · A. aspera (Rough Purple False-Foxglove) · A. auriculata (Earleaf False Foxglove) · A. bandeirensis · A. bangii · A. besseyana · A. brachyphylla · A. brevifolia · A. caddoensis (Caddo Parish False-Foxglove) · A. calycina (Leoncita False Foxglove) · A. chaparensis · A. communis · A. corymbosa · A. decemloba · A. delicatula · A. densiflora (Osage Plains Foxglove) · A. digitalis · A. divaricata (Pineland False Foxglove) · A. domingensis · A. edwardsiana (Plateau False Foxglove) · A. edwardsiana glabra · A. erecta · A. fasciculata (Fascicled False-Foxglove) · A. fasciculata var. insulomontana · A. fiebrigii · A. filicaulis (Jackson False Foxglove) · A. filifolia (Seminole False Foxglove) · A. gangii · A. gattingeri (Roundstem False Foxglove) · A. genistifolia · A. georgiana · A. glauca · A. grandiflora · A. grandiflora serrata · A. greenei · A. gypsophila · A. harperi · A. heterophylla (Prairie False Foxglove) · A. hispidula · A. holmiana · A. homalantha (San Antonio False Foxglove) · A. humilis · A. itambensis · A. keyensis · A. kingii · A. kingsii · A. laevigata · A. lanceolata · A. laxa (Two Line False Foxglove) · A. linariodes · A. linarioides · A. linarioides rojasii · A. linifolia (Flax-Leaf False-Foxglove) · A. longifolia · A. maritima (Salt-Marsh False-Foxglove) · A. maritima f. candida · A. maritima var. grandiflora (Saltmarsh False Foxglove) · A. maritima var. maritima (Saltmarsh False Foxglove) · A. megalantha · A. meyeniana · A. microphylla · A. nana · A. navasotensis (Navasota False Foxglove) · A. neoscotica (Nova Scotia False-Foxglove) · A. nuttallii (Nuttall's False Foxglove) · A. obtusifolia (Ten-Lobe False-Foxglove) · A. oligophylla (Ridge-Stem False-Foxglove) · A. palustris · A. parvifolia · A. paupercula (Small Flower False Foxglove) · A. paupercula var. borealis (Smallflower False Foxglove) · A. paupercula var. paupercula (Smallflower False Foxglove) · A. pedicularia · A. pedicularia ambigens · A. pedicularia caesariensis · A. peduncularis · A. pennellii · A. perennis · A. pinetorum (Coastal Plain False Foxglove) · A. plukeneti · A. plukenetii (Chattahoochee False Foxglove) · A. pulchella (St. Mark's False Foxglove) · A. purpurea (Large-Purple False-Foxglove) · A. purpurea f. kucyniakii · A. purpurea subsp. parviflora · A. purpurea var. neoscotia · A. ramoissima · A. ramosissima · A. ramossisima · A. ramulifera · A. reflexidens · A. rigida · A. scarlatina · A. schwackeana · A. setacea (Threadleaf False Foxglove) · A. skinneriana (Skinner's False Foxglove) · A. spiciflora

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/2/2009