Scrophularia lanceolata |
Scrophularia californica |
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lance-leaf figwort, mountain figwort |
California bee plant, California figwort, Oregon figwort |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 8–15 dm; herbage light green to dark green, glabrate or glandular-pubescent. | Herbs, perennial, 8–12 dm; herbage light green to dark green, glandular-pubescent. |
Leaves | petiole length 1/6–1/3 blade; blade ovate to lanceolate, 9–15(–20) cm, length 1.5–3 times width, base truncate to slightly rounded, margins serrate to dentate. |
petiole length 1/3–1/2 blade; blade deltate or ovate to lanceolate, 8–17 cm, length 1.5–3 times width, base cordate to truncate, sometimes cuneate, margins serrate or dentate, sometimes incised. |
Pedicels | moderately stout, glabrate or stipitate-glandular. |
slender to moderately stout, glabrate or stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | corolla brown-red to green, unicolored or ± bicolored, paler abaxially, 8–11(–14) mm, throat relatively open; staminode yellow-green, sometimes green to brown-red, flabellate, length less than width. |
corolla red, brown-red, or green, unicolored or ± bicolored, paler abaxially, 8–12 mm, throat narrow to open; staminode red, brown-red, or green, clavate to obovate, length greater than width, apex sometimes acute. |
2n | = 96. |
= ca. 90–96. |
Scrophularia lanceolata |
Scrophularia californica |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Mar–Jul. |
Habitat | Damp places in open woods, riparian areas, meadows, canyons. | Relatively damp places on slopes, chaparral, woodlands, roadsides. |
Elevation | 0–2800 m. (0–9200 ft.) | 0–2500 m. (0–8200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; CO; CT; DE; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MT; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SD; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; NB; NS; ON; QC; SK
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AZ; CA; OR; WA; BC; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Subspecies (or var.) floribunda, characteristically from inland and drier areas, may be part of a complex of infraspecific diversity within Scrophularia californica needing investigation. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 343. | FNA vol. 17, p. 343. |
Parent taxa | Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia | Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia |
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Synonyms | S. californica subsp. floribunda, S. californica var. floribunda, S. californica var. oregana, S. multiflora, S. oregana | |
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 419. (1813) | Chamisso & Schlechtendal: Linnaea 2: 585. (1827) — (as Scrofularia) |
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