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Scrophularia marilandica, also called late figwort, Maryland figwort, carpenter's square, or eastern figwort, is a flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae, native throughout eastern and central North America, where it is found growing in dry woods from Manitoba and Quebec south to Texas and Florida.
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 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.
Figwort usually refers to plants in the genus Scrophularia. Some other plants - mainly Lamiales formerly or still in the Scrophulariaceae - are also called "figwort". These include: [citation needed] Euphrasia officinalis (Red eyebright) Veronica officinalis (Common speedwell) Veronica anagallis-aquatica (Water speedwell)
Scrophularia lanceolata — hare figwort; Scrophularia marilandica — Carpenter's square figwort; Scrophularia oregana — Oregon figwort; Synthyris borealis — Alaska kittentail; Tonella tenella — smallflower tonella; Triphysaria eriantha — Jonny-Turk owl's-clover; Triphysaria pusilla — dwarf owl's-clover
Scrophularia lanceolata is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family known by the common names lanceleaf figwort and American figwort. [4] It is native to North America, where it is known from western and eastern Canada and much of the United States except for the southeastern quadrant. [ 5 ]
Scrophularia nodosa (also called figwort, woodland figwort, and common figwort) is a perennial herbaceous plant found in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere except western North America. [1] It grows in moist and cultivated waste ground.
Any plant of the family Philydraceae. White navelwort - A plant of the genus Omphalodes. White Swallowwort - Vincetoxicum officinale. Willowwort - Any plant of the willow family, Salicaceae. A species of Lythrum. Grasspoly; a variety of loosestrife. Woundwort - The name of several plants of the genus Stachys, a genus of labiate plants.