MIDWEST AGALINIS
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Agalinis gattingeri (Small ) Small ex Britton
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| Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 4-24 inches |
| Family: Orobanchaceae - Broomrape Family |
| Flowering Period: August, September |
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| Also Called: | | Gattinger's agalinis. | | Stems: | | Usually branched, sometimes simple, nearly glabrous or scabrous. | | Leaves: | | Cauline, opposite or sometimes alternate on branches, simple, sessile, linear, .4 to 1.4 inch long, .02 to .06 inch wide, scabrous, margins entire. | | Inflorescences: | | Terminal, racemes. Pedicels slender, spreading to ascending, .2 to 1.4 inch. | | Flowers: | | Calyx top-shaped to hemispheric, .16 to .2 inch, lobes triangular-lanceolate, shorter than calyx tube; corolla pink to light purple with 2 yellow lines and dark pink spots in throat, .4 to .6 inch, throat villous internally; lobes 5, spreading; stamens 4, 2 longer than others; filaments and anthers villous; pistil 1; style 1; stigma 1. | | Fruits: | | Capsules globose, .16 to .2 inch; seeds tan, angular, tiny. | | Habitat: | | Openings in oak-hickory forests and woodlands; dry tallgrass prairies, glades. | | Distribution: | | East 1/5 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Agalinis very much and flax, alluding to resemblance of some plants to flax and
gattingeri for botanist Augustin Gattingeri. |
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