Gattinger's Agalinis (Agalinis gattingeri)
As of October 2008 Endangered Provincially and Nationally

Member of the Figwort Family, grows in Canada on two of the delta islands of Lake St Clair, on Manitoulin Island and two sites on the Bruce peninsula. Also known as the Round-stemmed Purple False Foxglove, a branching, slender plant that produces showy, pink or rose-purple bell-shaped flowers during late summer. The inside of the throat has yellow lines and red spots. Gattinger's Agalinis is a "hemiparasite", which means, it obtains nutrients from tree roots through fungal filaments called hyphae. These are attached to the roots of host palnt and Gattingers. This annual, produces seeds in order to propagate in an area.

The demise of this species may be due in part because the remaining small,restricted populations are threatened by road construction and agricultural expansion.

Under Ontario's Endangered Species Act, 2007, Gattinger's Agalinis is protected from
anything that may harm the species. Ontario populations exist on private land. It obtains nutrients in a special manner and this palnt has not been propagated by growers, making it impossible to plant new stock at this time.

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