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It grows 1.5–3 metres (4 ft 11 in – 9 ft 10 in) tall, with opposite, ovate leaves up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in) long and 9 centimetres (3.5 in) broad. The flowers are rounded, 8–9 millimetres (0.31–0.35 in) long, with a cup-like mouth that look somewhat like a horse 's mouth with a bad overbite; they are a deep reddish-purple color on ...
The flowers are bisexual with 4 fertile stamens and 1 sterile staminode, which is distinctively 2-lobed. There is one style with a capitate (blob-shaped) stigma. Basal leaves. At maturity, the fruit is a round capsule some 4-6 mm long, containing many tiny, brown wrinkled seeds about 0.5 mm in diameter. [2] [3] [4]
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.
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.
He then divided the Gratioleae, with its 16 genera (and about 182 species) into three subtribes – Caprarinae, Dopatrinae, and Gratiolinae. The Gratiolinae had 10 genera (about 121 species) distributed through temperate and tropical America – Bacopa and Mecardonia (formerly Herpestis ), Amphianthus , Gratiola , Sophronanthe , Benjaminia ...
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 ]
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The flowers are borne in groups of 2 or 3 in leaf axils on glabrous, sticky stalks 4.5–7 mm (0.2–0.3 in) long. There are 5 white to cream-coloured, sometimes pinkish sepals which are lance-shaped with a rounded end and mostly 4–9.5 mm (0.2–0.4 in) long. The petals are 10–18 mm (0.4–0.7 in) long and joined at their lower end to form ...