page_title: Agalinis purpurea
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Agalinis purpurea / Description
caption_attribution_description: Agalinis purpurea (L.) Pennell English: Purple False Foxglove. Drawing.
context_page_description: Agalinis purpurea is an annual forb native to the eastern United States and Canada, which produces purple flowers in late summer or early fall.
context_section_description: Agalinis purpurea is 10 to 120 centimeters tall. The stem is slender, with spreading branches. It has simple opposite leaves, which are 10 to 40 millimeters long, and only 0.5 to 2 millimeters wide. The flowers are racemose on the branches. They are borne on 1 to 8 millimeter long pedicles. Each flower is bilaterally symmetrical, with five 20 to 38 millimeter long petals fused into a corolla tube, and four stamens. The fruit is a round 4 to 6 millimeter long dry capsule that splits open when ripe.
caption: Botanical illustration of Agalinis purpurea (1913)
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