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Plateau false foxglove

Agalinis edwardsiana

Also called Plateau Gerardia, Plateau Agalinis

Plateau false foxglove
Photo: Michelle Wong, CC BY 4.0

Plateau false foxglove is a small, sparsely branched annual wildflower from the Edwards Plateau of Texas, grown mainly in native and wildflower gardens. It is a semi-parasitic plant that does best in lean, well-drained limestone soils with full sun.

Family
Orobanchaceae (Orobanch family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly while seedlings establish, then let the soil dry between rains; avoid soggy ground.
Soil
Thin, well-drained limestone-type soil or gritty mix; poor soil is fine.
Temperature
Suited to warm Texas summers; frost-tender annual, sow after frost risk passes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Texas
Climate
subtropical

About

Agalinis edwardsiana is a flowering plant species in the family Orobanchaceae family with the common name plateau agalinis.

Where it grows

Agalinis edwardsiana is native to the Edwards Plateau in Texas, where it grows on limestone and thin limestone-derived soils.

Other Agalinis plants

Sandplain false foxglove · Tall false foxglove · Earleaf false foxglove · Pineland false foxglove · Beach false foxglove · Seminole false foxglove · Roundstem false foxglove · Prairie false foxglove · Agalinis itambensis · Agalinis kingsii · Flaxleaf false foxglove · Saltmarsh false foxglove

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agalinis edwardsiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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