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Scrophularia californica

California bee plant, California figwort, Oregon figwort
Habit Herbs, perennial, 8–12 dm; herbage light green to dark green, glandular-pubescent.
Leaves

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

slender to moderately stout, glabrate or stipitate-glandular.
Flowers

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

= ca. 90–96.

Scrophularia californica
Phenology Flowering Mar–Jul.
Habitat Relatively damp places on slopes, chaparral, woodlands, roadsides.
Elevation 0–2500 m. (0–8200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
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.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 343.
Parent taxa Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia
Sibling taxa
S. atrata, S. desertorum, S. laevis, S. lanceolata, S. macrantha, S. marilandica, S. montana, S. parviflora, S. peregrina, S. villosa
Synonyms S. californica subsp. floribunda, S. californica var. floribunda, S. californica var. oregana, S. multiflora, S. oregana
Name authority Chamisso & Schlechtendal: Linnaea 2: 585. (1827) — (as Scrofularia)
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