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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Perennial with tall, erect, leafy stems, stems are 4-angled, stems and leaves minutely hairy to smooth, aromatic; open flower stalks of small irregular flowers that are green except for the upper lobes which are red.
Identification notes: Differentiated from other Scrophularia primarily by the lance-like to somewhat rounded leaves that are cut off squarely at their base; flowers greenish or dull red, short and broad with short rounded petal lobes, upper most petals red, lower green.
Height:
1-1/2 to 3-1/2 feet
Habitat Description: Found in rich soils in coniferous forests and moist canyons.
Plant Communities:
Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian
Elevation: 5000 - 8000 feet
Color:
Greenish or dull red
Shape:
Irregular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Jul - Sep
Description:
Greenish or dull red; short and broad with short petal lobes, upper lobes red, rounded, flat and horizontally spreading or bent downward; flowers numerous, borne in loose terminal branched elongated clusters; stamens 4, shorter than the petals.
Leaf Color:
Light green to dark green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Triangular
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Stems have 4 angles; leaves lance-like to rounded, opposite, sharply toothed, tips pointed, truncate (base is nearly a straight horizontal edge); stemmed, the leaf stems under a third the length of the leaf blade.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Round or subglobose (not perfectly round) capsule, with 2 segments that split open at maturity.
Seed Notes: Many dull, black seeds.
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