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Photographer: Janice Stiefel
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Family Scrophulariaceae
Agalinis paupercula (A.Gray) Britton
small-flowered false foxglove, smooth false foxglove
Agalinis: "remarkable flax" in botanical Latin.
paupercula: little-poor
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 6"-18" tall forb, dark green, blackish when dry, branches erect; stems smooth and 4 -angled; partially parasitic |
| Flower: | purple to pink, 5-parted, 1/2"-3/4" long, hairy inside, upper lobes spreading backward, 4 stamens with the lower ones longer, sepal lobes from 40% to as long as the tube; inflorescence of a few to many flowers from the leaf axils on stalks less than 1/4" long; blooms Aug.-Sept. |
| Fruit: | roundish, up to 1/4" long capsule with dark seeds  |
| Leaf: | largest to 1/8" wide, opposite |
| Habitat: | sun; moist; bogs, shores, barrens; in sandy soil |
| Notes: | very similar to A. purpurea but shorter and with smaller flowers |
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