Flora of North America species comparison

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Scrophularia desertorum

desert figwort
Habit Herbs, perennial, 7–12 dm; herbage light gray-green, glabrate or glandular-pubescent.
Leaves

petiole length 1/6–1/2 blade;

blade lanceolate, 4–8(–12) cm, length 2.2–3.5 times width, fleshy fresh, base truncate to cuneate, margins serrate to dentate.
Pedicels

slender, glabrate or stipitate-glandular.
Flowers

corolla brick red to cream, bicolored, sometimes unicolored, paler abaxially, abaxial lobe often cream to white, 7–9 mm, throat relatively open;

staminode clavate, length greater than width.
2n

= 96.

Scrophularia desertorum
Phenology Flowering Apr–Aug.
Habitat Rocky slopes, canyons, gravelly washes.
Elevation 800–3300 m. (2600–10800 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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Source FNA vol. 17, p. 341.
Parent taxa Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia
Sibling taxa
S. atrata, S. californica, S. laevis, S. lanceolata, S. macrantha, S. marilandica, S. montana, S. parviflora, S. peregrina, S. villosa
Synonyms S. californica var. desertorum
Name authority (Munz) R. J. Shaw: Aliso 5: 174. (1962)
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