Plant Name
Scientific Name: Scrophularia parviflora
Common Name: Pineland Figwort
Plant Characteristics
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Herb/Forb
Arizona Native Status: Native
Habitat: Mountain, Riparian. This plant is usually found at higher elevations, but it can also sometimes be found growing at lower elevations in mountain foothill canyons.
Flower Color: Brownish red to pale reddish
Flowering Season: Summer
Height: To 2 feet (61 cm) tall or more
Description: The small, rounded, broadly tubular flowers are borne in panicles and have 5 lobes with a recurved bottom lobe. The leaves are green, opposite, lanceolate, petioled, triangular in shape, and coarsely toothed. The stems are square in cross-section.
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Scrophulariales
Family: Scrophulariaceae – Figwort family
Genus: Scrophularia L. – figwort
Species: Scrophularia parviflora Woot. & Standl. – pineland figwort
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