FINE-LEAF GERARDIA
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Agalinis densiflora (Benth. ) S.F. Blake
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| [=Tomanthera densiflora (Benth. ) Pennell] |
| Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 8-20 inches |
| Family: Scrophulariaceae - Figwort Family |
| Flowering Period: August, September |
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| Also Called: | | Fine-leaf tomanthera, fine-leaf hairy-foxglove. | | Stems: | | Erect, very leafy, much-branched, minutely and bristly hairy. | | Leaves: | | Opposite, sessile, pinnately cleft into 3-7 rigid, linear to filiform segments, .75 to 1.5 inch long, bristly hairy; tips pointed. | | Inflorescences: | | Spikes of flowers in upper leaf axils; bracts leaf-like, progressively reduced above. | | Flowers: | | Calyces narrowly funnel-shaped; lobes 5, lanceolate, margins fringed with hairs, tips pointed; corollas 5-lobed, 1 to 1.33 inch long, lavender to pinkish, throat with dark purple spots; lobes broadly rounded; margins fringed with hairs; stamens 4. | | Fruits: | | Capsules, egg-shaped, about 1/3 inch long; seeds numerous. | | Habitat: | | Dry prairies and bluffs, most abundant on limestone soils. | | Distribution: | | Principally in the Flint Hills of Kansas. | | Comments: | | Fine-leaf gerardia is water parasitic on the roots of other plants. | | | | Related to Rough agalinis . |
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