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Kickxia spuria

fluellin, round-leaf cancerwort, round-leaf fluellen, round-leaf fluellin
Habit Plants 10–80 cm.
Leaves

petiole 1–4 mm;

blade 4–40 × 3–30 mm, base rounded to cordate, villous with scattered glandular hairs.
Pedicels

6–12 mm.
Flowers

sepal lobes broadly lanceolate to ovate, 5–6 × 3–4 mm, accrescent, apex acute, villous;

corolla tube 3–5 mm, palate yellow, inflated, hairy, spurs 6–8 mm, abaxial lobes yellow, adaxial violet, 3–4 mm;

abaxial filaments 2–2.5 mm, adaxial 1.5–2 mm;

style included, 1.2–1.5 mm;

stigma straight.
Capsules

ovoid-globular, 3–5 mm.
Seeds

1–1.5 mm, cristate-tuberculate.
2n

= 18.

Kickxia spuria
Phenology Flowering May–Nov.
Habitat Gravelly or sandy disturbed sites, gravel bars, stream banks, roadsides.
Elevation 40–700 m. (100–2300 ft.)
Distribution
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AL; CA; FL; KY; MO; MT; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; TN; WI; BC; ON; Europe; Asia; n Africa; Atlantic Islands [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America, Australia]
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Discussion

The accrescent sepal lobes of Kickxia spuria is a unique characteristic in Kickxia. D. A. Sutton (1988) recognized two subspecies that he characterized as poorly defined [subsp. spuria and subsp. integrifolia (Brotero) R. Fernandes]; these were not differentiated by M. Ghebrehiwet (2001).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 26.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Kickxia
Sibling taxa
K. elatine
Synonyms Antirrhinum spurium
Name authority (Linnaeus) Dumortier: Fl. Belg., 35. (1827)
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