Agalinis tenuifolia
Agalinis gattingeri
gérardie à feuilles ténues, slender-leaf agalinis, slender-leaf false foxglove
Midwest false foxglove, roundstem false foxglove
simple or branched, 10–100 cm;
branches ascending to spreading, quadrangular, sharply ridged to winged distally, glabrate, sometimes scabrous.
simple or branched, 10–60 cm;
branches spreading-ascending, quadrangular-ridged, glabrate, scabridulous, or scabrous.
spreading, sometimes arching, ascending, or reflexed;
blade narrowly linear to linear-lanceolate, 10–70 x 0.3–6 mm, not fleshy, margins entire, adaxial surface scabrous;
axillary fascicles absent or shorter than subtending leaves.
spreading or arching;
blade narrowly linear to filiform, 13–30(–40) x 0.4–1.4 mm, not fleshy, margins entire, adaxial surface finely scabrous;
axillary fascicles absent.
racemes, elongate, flowers 2 per node;
bracts shorter than, or longer than, or both shorter and longer than, pedicels.
racemiform, flowers 1 per node, sometimes with pseudoterminal flowers on lateral branches;
bracts shorter than pedicels.
ascending-spreading, some upcurved distally, 6–25 mm, glabrous.
spreading-ascending, (4–)8–35 mm, glabrous.
calyx obconic to hemispheric, tube 2.3–5.5 mm, glabrous, lobes subulate to triangular-subulate, 0.3–2 mm;
corolla pink to rose purple, with 2 yellow lines and red spots in abaxial throat, 7–23 mm, throat pilose externally and glabrous within across bases and sinus of adaxial lobes, lobes: abaxial projected or spreading, adaxial projected over distal anthers, 2–8 mm, abaxial pilose externally, adaxial glabrous externally or pilose proximally;
proximal anthers perpendicular or oblique to filaments, distal perpendicular and vertical to filaments, pollen sacs 1–4 mm;
style exserted, 6.7–18 mm.
calyx turbinate to hemispheric, tube 2–4 mm, glabrous, sometimes hairy, lobes triangular-lanceolate, 0.5–1.4(–2.6) mm;
corolla pink to pale purple, with 2 yellow lines and dark pink spots in abaxial throat, 7–17 mm, throat pilose externally and villous within across bases and sinus of adaxial lobes, lobes: abaxial spreading, adaxial recurved, 3–5 mm, abaxial pilose externally, adaxial sparsely pilose or glabrous externally;
proximal anthers parallel to filaments, distal perpendicular to filaments, pollen sacs 1.3–2.5 mm;
style exserted, 7–13 mm.
globular, 4–7 mm.
globular-ovoid, 3.5–5 mm.
tan to brown, 0.5–1.5 mm.
yellowish tan, 0.7–1.2 mm.
= 28.
= 26.
Agalinis tenuifolia
Agalinis gattingeri
Populations of Agalinis tenuifolia in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and possibly Prince Edward Island in Canada are presumed introduced.
Agalinis tenuifolia is the most widespread and morphologically variable species of the genus in the flora area. Infraspecific taxa have been recognized based on differences in sizes of corollas, calyx lobes, anthers, capsules, and leaves; presence or absence of axillary fascicles; density of indument on stamens; branches ascending versus spreading; and even the stoutness of reticulations on seed coats. These characters intergrade within and among populations and occur in many other combinations in addition to those described, making these infraspecific taxa arbitrary and inconsistent with plants in the field. Pressed specimens of A. tenuifolia are often confused with A. gattingeri from which they differ by lacking a villous band of trichomes within the corolla at the bases of the adaxial corolla lobes present in A. gattingeri; projecting adaxial corolla lobes versus erect to recurved lobes in A. gattingeri; elongate racemes with two flowers per node versus one flower per node, often appearing to terminate branches in A. gattingeri; and low wings of tissue on the branch angles that are absent or less pronounced in A. gattingeri.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Plants of Agalinis gattingeri are most often confused with those of A. skinneriana and A. tenuifolia. They can be distinguished by features discussed under 33. A. tenuifolia. Agalinis gattingeri is also confused with A. skinneriana from which it can be separated by the mostly solitary flowers on lateral branches of A. gattingeri versus the well-formed central raceme of A. skinneriana; pink-purple corollas of A. gattingeri versus the pale pink to nearly white corollas of A. skinneriana; the flexible, well-branched stems of A. gattingeri versus the strict, brittle, mostly simple to few-branched stems of A. skinneriana; and the pilose abaxial corolla lobes in A. gattingeri versus the glabrous external corolla lobes of A. skinneriana. Isolated populations of A. gattingeri on the islands of Georgian Bay, Ontario, have calyx lobes to 2.6 mm and hairs on the calyx tube, characteristics not seen elsewhere in the species.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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