Flora of North America species comparison

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Nuttallanthus floridanus

Apalachicola toadflax, Florida toadflax
Fertile stems

1–5, simple, sometimes distally branched, 9–45 cm.
Leaves

blades of sterile-stem leaves elliptic to obovate, 1–6 × 0.5–2.8 mm, blades of fertile-stem leaves linear, 5–32 × 0.4–0.9(–1.4) mm.
Racemes

1–11 cm;

bracts narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1–3.5(–5) mm.
Pedicels

ascending, sometimes erect, 6–14 mm in fruit, sparsely to densely glandular-pubescent, hairs to 0.3 mm.
Flowers

calyx lobes lanceolate, 1.3–2.8 × 0.3–0.7 mm, sparsely to densely glandular-pubescent;

corolla blue, 5–9 mm, spurs straight, 0.1–0.5 mm, abaxial lip 3–4.5 mm, adaxial 1–3.4 mm.
Capsules

oblong-globular, 2–3.7 × 1.8–3 mm.
Seeds

black, 0.3–0.5 mm, edges rounded, faces obscurely tuberculate.

Nuttallanthus floridanus
Phenology Flowering Mar–Apr.
Habitat Sandy woodlands, scrublands, sandhills, coastal dunes.
Elevation 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; MS
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Source FNA vol. 17, p. 41.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Nuttallanthus
Sibling taxa
N. canadensis, N. texanus
Synonyms Linaria floridana
Name authority (Chapman) D. A. Sutton: Revis. Antirrhineae, 461. (1988)
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