Scrophularia
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The genus Scrophularia of the family Scrophulariaceae comprises about 200 species of herbaceous flowering plants commonly known as figworts. Species of Scrophularia all share square stems, opposite leaves and open two-lipped flowers forming clusters at the end of their stems. The genus is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Scrophularia (a reputed remedy for scrofula). Scrophulariaceae. Figwort. Herbs or subshrubs, glabrous or hirsute, often fetid, sparingly grown in the herbaceous border. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, entire, incised, or dissected: cymes lax, in a terminal simple or somewhat branched thyrsus: fls. small, rarely rather large, greenish purple, purple, lurid or yellow; calyx deeply 5-cleft or 5-parted; corolla 5-lobed, short, 4 erect, the anterior one spreading; stamens 4, perfect, didynamous: caps. ovoid or subglobose.—About 150 species, Medit. region, Orient and N. Amer. CH
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Other plants called "figwort"
Some other plants - mainly Lamiales formerly or still in the Scrophulariaceae - are also called "figwort". These include:
- Euphrasia officinalis (Red Eyebright)
- Veronica officinalis (Common Speedwell)
- Veronica anagallis-aquatica (Water Speedwell)
- Gratiola officinalis (Common Hedgehyssop)
- Bacopa monnieri (Coastal Waterhyssop)
- Scoparia dulcis (Sweet Broomweed)
- Ilysanthes riparia (False Pimpernel)
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References
- ↑ RSPB Birds Magazine Summer 2004, page 65
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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