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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Scrophulariaceae
Agalinis purpurea (L.) Pennell
purple false foxglove, smooth agalinis
Agalinis: "remarkable flax" in botanical Latin.
purpurea: from Greek for "purple"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 10"-36" tall forb, dark green, blackish when dry, branches erect; stems smooth, 4-angled; partially parasitic |
| Flower: | purple to white, 5-parted, 3/4"-1 1/2" long, hairy inside, upper lobes spreading backward, 4 stamens with the lower ones longer, sepal lobes only up to half as long as the tube; inflorescence of a few to many flowers on stalks less than1/4" long; blooms Aug.-Sept. |
| Fruit: | roundish, up to 1/4" long capsule with dark seeds  |
| Leaf: | largest to 1/8" wide, opposite |
| Habitat: | moist; shores, meadows, bogs; in marly, peaty, sandy soil |
| Notes: | very similar to A. paupercula but taller and with larger flowers |
| (Glossary) |
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