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|accepted_name=Agalinis tenella
|accepted_authority=Pennell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=40: 434. 1913
|year=1913
}}
|common_names=Delicate false foxglove
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gerardia tenella
|authority=(Pennell) Pennell
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Agalinis;Agalinis tenella
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Agalinis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Agalinis tenella]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 535, 538, 541, 544, 546, 547, 549
|treatment_page=page 554
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>simple or branched, 25–90 cm; branches laxly and widely spreading, subterete proximally, quadrangular-ridged distally, glabrous or scabridulous. <b>Leaves</b> spreading; blade filiform to linear-filiform, 6–25 x 0.2–1(–1.5) mm, margins entire, often siliceous, abaxial midvein sometimes scabridulous, adaxial surface finely scabrous; axillary fascicles absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, flowers 2 per node, sometimes with branches bearing pseudoterminal flowers; bracts shorter than pedicels. <b>Pedicels</b> spreading, (7–)10–25(–30) mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx obconic to hemispheric, tube 2–3 mm, glabrous, lobes subulate, 0.2–0.4 mm; corolla pink to rosy pink, with 2 yellow lines and red spots in abaxial throat, 10–17 mm, throat pilose externally and villous within across bases and sinus of adaxial lobes, lobes: abaxial spreading, adaxial erect to strongly recurved, 4–7.3 mm, glabrous externally; proximal anthers parallel to filaments, distal perpendicular to filaments, pollen sacs 1.7–2.5 mm; style exserted, 7–9 mm. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid-globular, 3–3.7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> yellow, 0.7–1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Dry sandy to mesic pine savannas, margins of pine plantations, mixed open woodlands and oak-pine scrub, open pine-palmetto palm woodlands, ditch banks, sandy embankments, roadsides.
|elevation=0–70 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Agalinis tenella</i> is common in the panhandle of Florida, adjacent Alabama, and east-central Georgia, and occasional in southern South Carolina. J. B. Pettengill and M. C. Neel (2011) showed <i>A. tenella</i> to be most closely related to the rare <i>A. decemloba</i>. <i>Agalinis tenella</i> is distinguished from <i>A. decemloba</i> (including A. acuta) by the laxly and widely spreading branching habit, generally much shorter calyx lobes, larger corollas, and truncate capsules of <i>A. tenella</i>. <i>Agalinis tenella</i> can also be confused with <i>A. obtusifolia</i>; <i>A. tenella</i> has well-formed racemes usually with two flowers per node, while the inflorescence of <i>A. obtusifolia</i> is paniculate and has short, slender branches each appearing to terminate in a pedicelled flower subtended by tiny bractlets.</p>
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name=Agalinis tenella
|authority=Pennell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Gerardia tenella
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Dry sandy to mesic pine savannas, margins of pine plantations, mixed open woodlands and oak-pine scrub, open pine-palmetto palm woodlands, ditch banks, sandy embankments, roadsides.
|elevation=0–70 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1913
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Agalinis
|species=Agalinis tenella
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