EcoFlora - Aureolaria grandiflora

Aureolaria grandiflora (Benth.) Pennell
Family: Orobanchaceae Large-Flower Yellow False Foxglove, more...largeflower yellow false foxglove [Dasistoma drummondii Benth.] Morton Arboretum	Gleason & Cronquist Indiana Flora Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Widely branched, densely cinereous- hairy perennial 0.5-1.5 m; lower lvs ovate in outline, ±pinnatifid, the upper progressively reduced, the bracteal ones laciniate to entire; pedicels stout, 4-10 mm at anthesis, abruptly upcurved; cal-tube hemispheric, longer than the lanceolate or triangular, entire or toothed lobes; cor 4-5 cm; fr glabrous, ovoid, 15-20 mm. Upland woods; nw. Ind. to s. Wis. and se. Minn., s. to La. and Tex. July-Sept. (Gerardia g.; Dasistoma g.) Our plants are mostly var. pulchra Pennell, with the upper and bracteal lvs sharply serrate to deeply laciniate. The southern and Ozarkian var. serrata (Torr.) Pennell, with the upper and bracteal lvs entire to shallowly serrate, barely enters our range in Mo. (var. cinerea) Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission. From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = Wetland Indicator Status:
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