''Aureolaria'', with the common name false foxgloves, is a genus of 8 species, native to

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...

. ''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 the ...

, which is a character that in part describes the family

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

. 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 Scr ...

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

chloroplast A chloroplast () is a type of membrane-bound organelle, organelle known as a plastid that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant cell, plant and algae, algal cells. Chloroplasts have a high concentration of chlorophyll pigments which captur ...

DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of al ...

(

cpDNA Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA), also known as plastid DNA (ptDNA) 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 s ...

) 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'', with the common name false foxgloves, is a genus of 8 species, native to North America. ''Aureolaria'' plants are hemiparasitic, which is a character that in part describes the family Orobanchaceae. Until recently the genus was ...

'' *'' Aureolaria pectinata'' *'' Aureolaria pedicularia'' *'' Aureolaria virginica''

References

External links

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