''Aureolaria'', with the common name false foxgloves, is a genus of 8 species, native to North America. ''Aureolaria'' plants are

hemiparasitic A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirements from another living plant. They make up about 1% of angiosperms and are found in almost every biome. All parasitic plants develop a specialized organ called ...

, which is a character that in part describes the family

Orobanchaceae Orobanchaceae, the broomrapes, is a family of mostly parasitic plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera (e.g., '' Pedicularis'', '' Rhinanthus'', '' Striga'') were formerly included in ...

. Until recently the genus was aligned with members of the family

Scrophulariaceae The Scrophulariaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the figwort family. The plants are annual and perennial herbs, as well as shrubs. Flowers have bilateral ( zygomorphic) or rarely radial ( actinomorphic) symmetry. The S ...

. As a result of numerous molecular phylogenetic studies based on various

chloroplast A chloroplast () is a type of membrane-bound organelle known as a plastid that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant and algal cells. The photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll captures the energy from sunlight, converts it, and stores it ...

DNA (

cpDNA Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) is the DNA located in chloroplasts, which are photosynthetic organelles located within the cells of some eukaryotic organisms. Chloroplasts, like other types of plastid, contain a genome separate from that in the cell nuc ...

) loci, it was shown to be more closely related to members of the

.Phylogeny of the parasitic plant family Orobanchaceae inferred from phytochrome A
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Species

*'' Aureolaria flava'' *'' Aureolaria grandiflora'' *'' Aureolaria greggii'' *'' Aureolaria levigata'' *'' Aureolaria patula'' *'' Aureolaria pectinata'' *'' Aureolaria pedicularia'' *'' Aureolaria virginica''

References

External links

* * Flora of North America Orobanchaceae genera Parasitic plants Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque {{Orobanchaceae-stub