Agalinis pulchella
Agalinis laxa
beautiful false foxglove, purple gerardia, St. Mark's false foxglove
long-pedicelled false foxglove, twoline false foxglove
branched, 50–120 cm;
branches spreading-ascending, quadrangular-ridged, scabrous.
simple or branched, 20–100 cm;
branches widely and laxly ascending, terete proximally, terete or bluntly angular-ridged distally, glabrous or scabridulous.
spreading-ascending;
blade filiform, 16–40 x 0.4–1 mm, margins entire, midvein harshly scabrous, adaxial surface scabrous;
axillary fascicles: length 1/2–1 times subtending leaves.
spreading;
blade filiform, (7–)10–30 x 0.3–1 mm, not fleshy, margins entire, finely scabrous or nearly glabrous, adaxial surface finely scabrous or glabrate;
axillary fascicles absent.
racemiform-paniculiform, flowers 1 per node, some flowers pseudoterminal;
bracts shorter than pedicels.
racemose-paniculate, flowers 1 per node, some flowers pseudoterminal;
bracts much shorter than pedicels.
spreading-ascending, 12–50 mm, scabrous.
widely spreading, 15–40(–47) mm, glabrous.
calyx hemispheric, tube 3–4(–5) mm, glaucous, lobes erect, subulate, 0.1–0.6 mm;
corolla dark pink to rose, with 2 yellow lines and purple spots in abaxial throat, 22–33 mm, throat sparsely pilose externally and glabrous within across bases of adaxial lobes, sparsely villous at sinus, lobes: abaxial reflexed-spreading, adaxial spreading, 6–12 mm, equal, glabrous externally;
proximal anthers parallel to filaments, distal perpendicular to filaments, pollen sacs 2.5–3.8 mm;
style strongly exserted, 9–18 mm.
calyx narrowly campanulate, tube 2.5–4 mm, glabrous, lobes deltate-subulate, 0.3–1 mm;
corolla pale pink to pink, with 2 yellow lines and red spots in abaxial throat, 8–16.5 mm, throat pilose externally and villous within across bases and sinus of adaxial lobes, lobes: abaxial spreading, adaxial reflexed-spreading, 2.7–6.4(–7) mm, abaxial pilose externally, adaxial glabrous externally;
proximal anthers parallel to filaments, distal perpendicular to filaments, pollen sacs 1.3–2.8 mm;
style exserted, 5–12 mm.
globular, 4–6 mm.
globular-ovoid, 3.7–5 mm.
black, 0.5–0.8 mm.
black, 0.4–0.7 mm.
= 26.
= 28.
Agalinis pulchella
Agalinis laxa
Agalinis pulchella is an uncommon species in the easternmost area of its range and is common only westward in southeastern Texas.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Agalinis laxa occurs in northeastern South Carolina and is expected to occur in southeastern North Carolina; it is most common near the coast in Georgia and northeastern Florida but is found sporadically on the coastal plain as far south as Hernando County, Florida. In the field, A. laxa is most easily confused with A. tenella; both have laxly spreading branches, widely spaced leaves, long pedicels subtended by much shorter bracts, and inflorescences with some pseudoterminal flowers. Agalinis laxa is most easily differentiated from A. tenella by pedicels to 40 mm in fruit, shorter and narrower corollas, straight corolla throats, pilose abaxial corolla lobes, and black seeds. Agalinis tenella has larger gibbous corollas, glabrous abaxial corolla lobes, and golden yellow seeds.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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