Scrophularia desertorum |
Scrophularia parviflora |
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desert figwort |
pineland figwort |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 7–12 dm; herbage light gray-green, glabrate or glandular-pubescent. | Herbs, perennial, 5–11 dm; herbage light green to dark green, puberulent, more densely distally. |
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 1/6–1/3 blade; blade lanceolate to ovate, 4–7(–8) cm, length 2–3 times width, base truncate, margins dentate. |
Pedicels | slender, glabrate or stipitate-glandular. |
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. |
corolla red to green, unicolored or ± bicolored, paler abaxially, 6–8 mm, throat ± open; staminode obovate, length usually greater than width. |
2n | = 96. |
= 92. |
Scrophularia desertorum |
Scrophularia parviflora |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Aug. | Flowering Jul–Oct. |
Habitat | Rocky slopes, canyons, gravelly washes. | Coniferous forests, riparian areas. |
Elevation | 800–3300 m. (2600–10800 ft.) | 1500–3100 m. (4900–10200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV
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AZ; NM
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 341. | FNA vol. 17, p. 342. |
Parent taxa | Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia | Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. californica var. desertorum | |
Name authority | (Munz) R. J. Shaw: Aliso 5: 174. (1962) | Wooton & Standley: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 16: 173. (1913) |
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