Scrophularia scopoliiHoppe ex Pers. Figwort

Scrophularia scopoliiHoppe ex Pers. - Figwort

Scientific Description:

Biennial or perennial. Stems 20−100 cm, glabrous to sparingly villous-lanate, purplish. Leaves opposite-decussate (rarely alternate), petiole 1-6.5 cm; lamina 2.5−12.5 × 2.2−8.5 cm, broadly ovate to oblong, base deeply cordate to cuneate; apex obtuse to subacute; margin bicrenate-mucronate to deeply dentate. Inflorescence subfoliate to aphyllous, cymes 2−13-flowered. Peduncle 0.4−6.5 cm; alar pedicel 4−17(−22) mm, glandular, exceeding the narrowly lanceolate to subulate, glandular, 2−13 mm bracteoles. Calyx lobes 2−4 mm, ovate to broadly ovate, glandular or eglandular; scarious margin dark brown to white (rarely oblongish), 0.3−1.2 mm broad. Corolla greenish-brown to purplish-red, 5.8 mm. Stamens included (rarely exserted); filament glands globose; staminode transversely oblong, reniform, suborbicular, non-retuse to ± lobed, rarely obcordate. Capsule ovoid to broadly ovoid, 4.5−7.5 × 3.5−4.5 mm, beaked to apiculate.

var. scopolii

Median and lower leaves simply or doubly crenate to dentate (teeth not deepened into lobes).

 

Flowering time: April−August.

Habitat: Forests, moist rocky slopes, streamsides, scrub, 15−2300 m.

 

Reference:

Lall SS & Mill RR (1978). Scrophularia scopolii Hoppe ex Pers., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 616.

Public Description:

Scrophularia scopolii var. scopolii, known as “figwort”, is native to Europe, Türkiye, Russia, Caucasus, North Iraq and Syria. It is a biennial or perennial herb with greenish-brown to purplish-red flowers, and grows up to 100 cm in length. It blooms between April to July and is found in forests, moist rocky slopes, streamsides and scrub.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2017). http://yabanicicek.com/scrophularia-scopolii-ek-bilgi.php, Accessed date: 22.03.2017.

Uzunhisarcıklı M E (2012) Scrophularia L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 845–850.