About Agalinis gattingeri (Small) Small
Agalinis gattingeri is an annual plant species with upright, slender, hairless, round stems. Stems produce few to many branches at their upper ends. Its narrow-linear leaves are 10 to 34 mm long and 0.4 to 1 mm wide, and these leaves are shorter than the plant's pedicels. Flowers are pinkish and tubular, 7 to 30 mm in length, with many red spots and two yellow lines on the lower lip. Flowers bloom from late summer through fall. Single flowers most often grow at the ends of branches, rather than directly from the main stem. Each five-lobed flower has two smaller upper lobes that are more joined together than the three larger lower lobes. Its seed capsules are rounded, holding many yellow to tan seeds that are 0.5 to 1.2 mm long. This species grows in drier areas of remnant prairies and alvar. In Minnesota, it grows on dry, sunny, south-facing hillside prairies with rocky and sandy soils.
