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Elder Leaved Figwort

Scrophularia sambucifolia

Elder Leaved Figwort
Photo: User:Xemenedura, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Scrophulariaceae (Scrophulari family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
C. & S. Portugal to S. Spain, NW. Africa
Climate
subtropical

About

Scrophularia sambucifolia is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family (Scrophulariaceae) native to the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa.

Where it grows

Scrophularia sambucifolia is native to the southwest Iberian Peninsula (in central and southern Portugal, mainly Médio Tejo, Lezíria do Tejo, Baixo Alentejo and Algarve, southwest Spain and Gibraltar) and Northwest Africa (in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) where it inhabits moist sites, usually close to the margins of water lines, preferably on deep soils of mud or limestone origin.

Other Scrophularia plants

Darkflowered figwort · Shoreline figwort · California figwort · Dog figwort · Desert figwort · Scrophularia grandiflora · Lanceleaf figwort · Carpenter's square · Chinese Figwort · Woodland figwort · Mediterranean figwort · Balm Leaved Figwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scrophularia sambucifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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