Flora of North America species comparison

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Scrophularia desertorum

Scrophularia macrantha

desert figwort

New Mexico figwort
Habit Herbs, perennial, 7–12 dm; herbage light gray-green, glabrate or glandular-pubescent. Herbs, perennial, 4–11 dm; herbage light green to dark green, glabrate.
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.

petiole length 1/3–1/2 blade;

blade ovate to lanceolate, 5–8(–11) cm, length 2–2.5 times width, base truncate, margins serrate to dentate.
Pedicels

slender, glabrate or stipitate-glandular.

relatively stout, 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.

corolla bright red, unicolored, (10–)13–21 mm, throat narrow;

staminode obovate, length greater than width.
2n

= 96.

= 92.

Scrophularia desertorum

Scrophularia macrantha
Phenology Flowering Apr–Aug. Flowering Jul–Oct.
Habitat Rocky slopes, canyons, gravelly washes. Rocky slopes, canyon bottoms, pinyon-juniper woodlands, lower montane coniferous forests.
Elevation 800–3300 m. (2600–10800 ft.) 2000–2500 m. (6600–8200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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from FNA
NM
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Discussion

Scrophularia macrantha has been called S. coccinea A. Gray, an illegitimate later homonym of S. coccinea Linnaeus. Scrophularia macrantha is known from Grant and Luna counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 341. FNA vol. 17, p. 341.
Parent taxa Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia
Sibling taxa
S. atrata, S. californica, S. laevis, S. lanceolata, S. macrantha, S. marilandica, S. montana, S. parviflora, S. peregrina, S. villosa
S. atrata, S. californica, S. desertorum, S. laevis, S. lanceolata, S. marilandica, S. montana, S. parviflora, S. peregrina, S. villosa
Synonyms S. californica var. desertorum S. neomexicana
Name authority (Munz) R. J. Shaw: Aliso 5: 174. (1962) Greene ex Stiefelhagen: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 44: 461, 483. (1910)
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