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Montana figwort, mountain figwort

New Mexico figwort

Habit Herbs, perennial, 10–15 dm; herbage dark green, finely glandular-pubescent. Herbs, perennial, 4–11 dm; herbage light green to dark green, glabrate.
Leaves

petiole length 1/12–1/6 blade;

blade lanceolate, 8.5–14 cm, length 3–4.5 times width, base truncate or cuneate, margins regularly serrulate.

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

relatively stout, stipitate-glandular.

relatively stout, glabrate or stipitate-glandular.

Flowers

corolla brown-red or purple-red to green, unicolored, sometimes ± bicolored, paler abaxially, 6–10 mm, throat ± open;

staminode obovate, length usually greater than width.

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

staminode obovate, length greater than width.

2n

= ca. 70–76.

= 92.

Scrophularia montana

Scrophularia macrantha

Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep. Flowering Jul–Oct.
Habitat Mountainous areas, open woodlands, forest edges. Rocky slopes, canyon bottoms, pinyon-juniper woodlands, lower montane coniferous forests.
Elevation 2200–3200 m. (7200–10500 ft.) 2000–2500 m. (6600–8200 ft.)
Distribution
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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. 342. FNA vol. 17, p. 341.
Parent taxa Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia
Sibling taxa
S. atrata, S. californica, S. desertorum, S. laevis, S. lanceolata, S. macrantha, S. marilandica, 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. neomexicana
Name authority Wooton: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 308. (1898) Greene ex Stiefelhagen: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 44: 461, 483. (1910)
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