| Description | Slender False Foxglove (Agalinis tenuifolia) is a slender stemmed flowering annual whose roots may be parasitic to other plants. Has purple-pink Foxglove-like flowers. |
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| Plant Type | Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full to partial sun |
| Moisture | moist to slightly dry, can tolerate some draught |
| Soil & Site | found growing in moist sites |
| Flowers | 5 regular parts, pink to magenta, rarely white with two yellow stripes and dots, only a few bloom at the same time, 2 upper lobes form a hood over the white stamens, an annual |
| Fruit | round capsule with dark triangular seeds |
| Leaves | slender, up to 3", opposite, long, glabrous, sessile, tenuifolia refers to slender leaves |
| Stems | slender, angular, much branching, green to reddish purple |
| Roots | fibrous, partially parasitic to other plants |
| Dimensions | height of 30" |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Native Site | eastern and southwestern United States, and Canada |
| Misc Facts | (syn. Gerardia tenuifolia), AKA: , Slender Gerardia, Slender Agalinis, Common False Foxglove |
| Notes & Reference | #56-Tall Grass Prairie Wildflowers (Doug Ladd) ,#153-Illinois Wild Flower (www.illinoiswildflowers.info), #191-Minnesota Wild Flowers (www.minnesotawildflowers.info) |
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