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Agalinis skinneriana

(Skinner's False Foxglove)

Overview

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Endangered
Threat status

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Pale False Foxglove, Skinner's False Foxglove, Skinners 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: lavender, pink, violet

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 12-18" tall.

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Growth

Culture: Space 12-15" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

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

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Agalinis purpurea var. carteri Pennell
  2. Gerardia purpurea L.
  3. Gerardia purpurea parvula Pennell
  4. Gerardia purpurea var. carteri (Pennell) Pennell
  5. Gerardia purpurea var. grandiflora Benth.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Ill. fl. n. U.S. ed. 2, 3:212. 1913

Name verified on 06-Apr-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

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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Data Sources

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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