Kickxia elatine

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Family:PLANTAGINACEAE
Species:Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.
Common Name:Sharpleaf Cancerwort; Sharpleaf Fluellen
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Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Annual
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:KIEL
Plant Notes:Sharpleaf Fluellen is an introduced annual or short-lived perennial in the Plantain family (Plantaginaceae). It is native to Asia and Europe. In Alabama it has been collected from scattered locations across the state. Sharpleaf Fluellen occurs on roadsides, in fields, on chalk outcrops, on gravel bars, and in other sunny disturbed sites, often on basic or sandy soils. Sharpleaf Fluellen is a much-branched prostrate or decumbent herbaceous species from a large taproot. The stems are green in color, shaggy pubescent, and with scattered glands. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, ovate to elliptic in outline, cuneate to hastate or sagittate at the base, pubescent, and with scattered glandular-hairs. Flowers are solitary on a long thin pedicel from the axils of the leaves. The pedicels are glabrous or with sparse long hairs. The calyx is green in color, pubescent, and 5-lobed. The corolla is bilaterally symmetrical, bilabiate and spurred. The spur and lower lip of the corolla is pale yellow in color and the upper lip is blue-violet. The flowers have a 'snapdragon' appearance. The fruit is a globular capsule. Fluellin is an obsolete name for certain species of Veronica. In addition to North America, Sharpleaf Fluellen has been introduced in Africa, Australia, Central and South America, and on islands in the Atlantic Ocean.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
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Classification

FamilyPLANTAGINACEAE - Plantain family
Genus Kickxia
Species Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort. - Sharpleaf Cancerwort; Sharpleaf Fluellen

Citation

Citation Kickxia elatine (Linnaeus) Dumortier, Fl. Belg. 35. 1827.
Basionym: Antirrhinum elatine L. 1753.
Type: Without data, (lectotype: LINN 767.2). Lectotypification by Pennell in Monogr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1 : 313. 1935.

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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Antirrhinum elatine Antirrhinum elatine Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 612-613. 1753.  
Elatinoides elatine Elatinoides elatine (Linnaeus) Wettst. in Engler u. Prantl Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 4(3b): 58. 1891.Antirrhinum elatine Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 612-613. 1753. 
Linaria elatine Linaria elatine (Linnaeus) P. Miller, The Gardeners Dictionary, eighth edition 1768.Antirrhinum elatine Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 612-613. 1753. 

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Lauderdale, Marengo, Mobile

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, SAMF, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
ALNHS00001900 Marengo 22 May 2013 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#1010		 ALNHS
Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.
UWAL0011633 Marengo 06 Jun 2012 Keener, Brian R.
7300		 UWAL
Kickxia elatine (Linnaeus) Dumortier
UNA00027153 Mobile s.d. Mohr, Charles
s.n.		 UNA
Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.
UWAL0011635 Marengo 16 Oct 2011 Keener, Brian R.
6779		 UWAL
Kickxia elatine (Linnaeus) Dumortier
SAMF0004654 Marengo 21 Jun 2013 Davenport, Lawrence J.
5493		 SAMF
Kickxia elatine (Linnaeus) Dumortier
UNA00073623 Marengo 06 Jun 2012 Keener, Brian R.
7300		 UNA
Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.
UWAL0052375 Lauderdale 08 Aug 2017 Keener, Brian R.
10399		 UWAL
Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.
ALNHS00007727 Marengo 29 JUN 2022 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#5780		 ALNHS
Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.
TROY000040887 Marengo 10 Oct 2011 Keener, Brian R.
6779		 TROY
Kickxia elatine (Linnaeus) Dumortier
TROY000040889 Marengo 06 Jun 2012 Keener, Brian R.
7300		 TROY
Kickxia elatine (Linnaeus) Dumortier
AUA_ACC_72184 Marengo 21 May 2012 KEENER, BRIAN R.
7300		 AUA
KICKXIA ELATINE (L.) DUMORT.
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