• Family name: Orobanchaceae or Scrophulariaceae

• Host plant for: Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia)

• General description: Herbaceous annual with erect branched stems, fine leaves and showy pink tubular flowers from late summer through fall. Can be propagated from seed but is semi-parasitic on the roots of nearby plants and a challenge to grow in gardens.

• Type: Annual
• Flower: Pink, tubular flowers
• Bloom time: Summer to fall
• Soil type: Moist
• Maximum height: 4 feet

• Candidate for home gardens: Lack of availability limits use; difficult to grow
• Availability in nursery: Not commercially available
• Frenquency in the wild: Common
• Habitat: coastal uplands, pine flatwoods, ruderal, wetlands

• Range in Florida

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