Agalinis purpurea (purple false foxglove)

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Agalinis purpurea, photographed by Brian Magurn — fig. a Brian Magurn, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-09 / obs. 162481614

Agalinis purpurea, photographed by Mike Duran — fig. b Mike Duran, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162006123

Agalinis purpurea, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan — fig. d Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 161152321

Agalinis purpurea, photographed by Tanya Riseman — fig. e Tanya Riseman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162062762

Agalinis purpurea, photographed by mefisher — fig. f mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160543533

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Agalinis heterophyllathis one called it 4x compare

Also published as 29 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Agalinis keyensis Pennell
Agalinis palustris Raf.
Agalinis paupercula (A.Gray) Britton
Agalinis paupercula var. borealis Pennell
Agalinis purpurea f. albiflora House
Agalinis purpurea f. kucyniakii B.Boivin
Agalinis purpurea subsp. parviflora (Benth.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
Agalinis purpurea var. carteri Pennell
Agalinis purpurea var. racemulosa (Pennell) Boivin
Aureolaria intermedia (Porter ex A.Gray) Farw.
Aureolaria purpurea (L.) Farw.
Aureolaria purpurea var. intermedia (Porter ex A.Gray) Farw.
Aureolaria purpurea var. paupercula (A.Gray) Farw.
Gerardia intermedia Porter ex A.Gray
Gerardia keyensis (Pennell) Pennell
Gerardia paupercula (A.Gray) Britton
Gerardia paupercula f. albiflora Vict. & J.Rousseau
Gerardia paupercula subsp. borealis Pennell
Gerardia paupercula subsp. typica Pennell
Gerardia purpurea L.
Gerardia purpurea f. albiflora (Vict. & J.Rousseau) Scoggan
Gerardia purpurea subsp. parvula Pennell
Gerardia purpurea var. carteri Pennell
Gerardia purpurea var. crassifolia Pursh

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.