Agalinis harperi Pennell
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Scrophulariaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual, glabrous or nearly so, little-branched, 8 dm. high or less. Leaves narrowly linear, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, spreading; bracts similar to the leaves, the lower often as long as the flowers; racemes 8-20-flowered, the flowers mostly opposite; pedicels shorter than the calyx, 2-3 mm. long; calyx-lobes triangular lanceolate, about 1 mm. long; corolla 15-18 mm. long, pubescent without, pinkish purple, with 2 yellow lines within, the lobes rounded or truncate, ciliate; stamens woolly; capsule subglobose, 4-5 mm. long.
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Distribution
Borders of marshes and in scrub-lands. Great Bahama, Abaco, Andros and Eleuthera : Florida. Reported by Mrs. Northrop and also by Dolley as Gerardia purpurea L. ; recorded as Ocrardia domingensis Spreng. in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard.
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