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Scrophularia atrata
Also called Black Flowered Figwort
Darkflowered figwort is an uncommon perennial herb from the figwort family, endemic to the Central Coast Ranges of California, growing in coastal canyons on calcareous and diatomaceous soils. It is a wild native rather than a common garden plant, so care notes are limited.
Scrophularia atrata is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the figwort family known by the common names black-flowered figwort and darkflowered figwort. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from a section of the Central Coast Ranges in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties. It grows in the calcareous and diatomaceous soils of the coastal canyons at elevations not exceeding 500 meters. There have been 128 observed occurrences of this species on Calflora.org alone. According to NatureServe, 38 out of 62 occurrences are historic. This plant is a perennial herb producing an erect, four-sided stem up to a meter tall or slightly taller. It is somewhat hairy to densely woolly in texture. The leaves have toothed oval blades up to 10 centimeters long which are borne on long petioles.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scrophularia atrata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
