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Small-flowered Agalinis

(Agalinis paupercula)

Color Photograph: © by and courtesy of Court Noxon

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

Small-flowered Agalinis (Agalinis paupercula [Gray] Britt.)

Identification: Flowers about 0.75 inches in length, pink to lavender in color. Petals in a tubular corolla with 5 free petal lobes. Calyx with large, sharp teeth. Flower stalks short, shorter than the calyx. Leaves narrow, grass-like, in opposite pairs. Plant 1 to 3 feet in height.

Distribution: Found from Manitoba in the west to Nova Scotia in the east, southward to Virginia and Illinois.

Habitat: Small-flowered Agalinis is found in bogs and wet meadows.

Flowering period: August to September.

Similar Species: Small-flowered Agalinis is one of a number of similar species of the genus Agalinis. Purple Agalinis is a generally larger plant with flowers about 1 inches in length. Its leaves are slightly wider, and the flower stalk is relatively longer (relative to the length of the calyx). Seaside Agalinis has succulent leaves. Slender Agalinis has long flower stalks (longer than the calyx).