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Middleton false foxglove

Agalinis neoscotica

Also called Nova Scotia Agalinis, Nova Scotia False Foxglove

Middleton false foxglove
Photo: bobkennedy, CC BY-SA 4.0

Middleton false foxglove is a small annual wildflower of wet coastal habitats in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine, and it is a rare plant in the wild. Keep it moist, in full sun, in a shallow, wet soil, since it grows naturally in bogs and salt marshes.

Family
Orobanchaceae (Orobanch family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as it grows in wet bogs and marsh margins.
Soil
Wet, sandy or peaty soil, similar to coastal marsh and bog conditions.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates; tolerates cold winters as an annual that sets seed in autumn.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Nova Scotia to Maine
Climate
temperate

About

Agalinis neoscotica, commonly known as Nova Scotia false foxglove, is a species of false foxglove. It is found in southwestern Nova Scotia along the coastal plain and neighbouring islands and in the southeastern portion of Maine.

Where it grows

Agalinis neoscotica is found in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, as well as Grand Manan Island and Sable Island. It also occurs in Washington county, Maine in the United States. Its habitats include bogs, brackish or salt marshes and flats, coastal beaches, fresh tidal marshes or flats, and wetland margins.

Other Agalinis plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agalinis neoscotica 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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