Ryan Kitchen

Dr. Chad King

Bio 112

March 20 2010

Purple False Foxglove

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Common Name- Purple False Foxglove, Clustered False Foxglove, Fasicled False Foxglove

Scientific Name- Agalines purpureus

Habitat- preferred habitat is dry to prairies and woodland edges. The bloom time is in
abundance in August through October. Early plants are sometimes found in July (depending on
rainfall)
Descriptive Characteristics-

The height is about 1-3 feet tall, branching occasionally. It has a tendency to sprawl in
the absence of supportive vegetation. The stems of the plant are dark green and are grooved
and hairless. The leaves are also usually hairless. Flowers are up to 1” long and across and vary
in color from lavender to purple fuchsia. There are many blooms that sprout up simultaneously
on the plant. You can tell the difference from this plant to plants related is by the flowers which
in the whitish corolla, purple dots are arranged in two yellow paths, and secondary leaves are
much smaller than the primary leaves.

Each flower has 5 lobes. It has two upper, two on the side, and one lower. Each lobe is
tipped with fine hairs that give it. The tubed shaped flowers arise from short stalks. These
plants are found in loose colonies in the roots of grasses. The purple false foxglove is also host
plant for the larval Dark Buckeye butterfly which comes around every September.

Classification:

Kingdom Plantae – Plants

Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Asteridae
Order Scrophulariales
Family Scrophulariaceae – Figwort family
Genus Agalinis Raf. – false foxglove
Species Agalinis purpurea (L.) Pennell – purple false foxglove