Scrophularia montana |
Scrophularia macrantha |
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Montana figwort, mountain figwort |
New Mexico figwort |
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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 |
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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 |
NM
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NM |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 342. | FNA vol. 17, p. 341. |
Parent taxa | Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia | Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia |
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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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