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|accepted_name=Agalinis oligophylla
|accepted_authority=Pennell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=40: 432. 1913
|year=1913
}}
|common_names=Ridgestem false foxglove
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gerardia aphylla var. grandiflora
|authority=Bentham
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=G. microphylla
|authority=Small
}}
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Agalinis;Agalinis oligophylla
|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 oligophylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 538, 550
|treatment_page=page 549
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>simple or branched, 30–90(–110) cm; branches spreading-ascending, quadrangular, with siliceous ridges on angles, scabridulous. <b>Leaves</b> ascending; blade subulate, elliptic, or filiform, (1–)4–13 x 0.3–1.1 mm, margins entire, heavily siliceous, scabridulous, adaxial surface siliceous, scabridulous; axillary fascicles absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemiform-paniculate, with short multinoded floriferous branches, some with pseudoterminal flowers, flowers 1 or 2 per node; bracts shorter than or sometimes equal to pedicels. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending, 4–16 mm, +/- scabridulous. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx campanulate to funnelform, tube 2.5–3.2 mm, glabrous, lobes subulate to triangular-subulate, 0.1–1 mm; corolla pink to dark pink, with 2 yellow lines and red spots in abaxial throat, 15–25 mm, throat pilose externally and villous within across bases and sinus of adaxial lobes, lobes: abaxial spreading, adaxial reflexed-spreading, 4–7(–9) mm, glabrous externally; proximal anthers parallel to filaments, distal oblique or perpendicular to filaments, pollen sacs 1.8–2.6 mm; style exserted, 6–11 mm. <b>Capsules</b> globular, 4–6 mm. <b>Seeds</b> tan to yellow, 0.5–0.9 mm. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Sep–mid Nov.
|habitat=Moist to dry longleaf pine savannas, edges of pine plantations, dry roadsides, chalky outcrops, seepage slopes of clay roadsides.
|elevation=0–300 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;La.;Miss.;Tenn.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>Plants of Agalinis oligophylla are rare in the easternmost portions of the range; they are abundant farther west into Texas. Agalinis oligophylla is often the last species of Agalinis to begin flowering, usually in late September, sometimes not until mid October and often remains in flower well into November. Unbranched plants of A. oligophylla can be confused with A. aphylla, with which it often shares the habitat. Agalinis oligophylla can be distinguished from A. aphylla by the longer leaves, more diffusely branched inflorescence, glabrous style, and the much later flowering period of A. oligophylla. Also, on the older buds of A. oligophylla the corolla is globular, but in A. aphylla the corolla on older buds is obovoid. Corollas of A. oligophylla are asymmetric; the adaxial side of the corolla throat is conspicuously shorter than the upcurved abaxial side of the corolla. The buds, pedicels, and capsules of A. oligophylla turn dark brown or blackish, and corollas turn dark purplish or pinkish brown when dried. These dark structures contrast strikingly with the pale green to gray (or reddish) branches and leaves.</p>
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name=Agalinis oligophylla
|author=
|authority=Pennell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=G. microphylla
|basionyms=Gerardia aphylla var. grandiflora
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering late Sep–mid Nov.
|habitat=Moist to dry longleaf pine savannas, edges of pine plantations, dry roadsides, chalky outcrops, seepage slopes of clay roadsides.
|elevation=0–300 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;La.;Miss.;Tenn.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1913
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Agalinis
|species=Agalinis oligophylla
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