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Scrophularia umbrosa
Also called Green figwort, Water betony, Scarce Water Figwort, Western Figwort
Scrophularia oblongifolia (syn. S. umbrosa), green figwort, is a perennial herbaceous plant found in Europe and Asia. It grows in damp, shady places such as wet woodland and farmland ditches. It is very similar to the closely related Scrophularia auriculata (water figwort), from which it is best separated by the shape of the staminode.
Green figwort is native to Europe and western Asia, as far north as the Baltic states and eastward to Xinjiang. It does not occur in Africa and in Sweden it is considered to be a recent introduction. It is not otherwise recorded as an introduction outside its natural range. There are old records of a figwort, either green- or water-figwort (accounts differ), as a casual in harbours in New York and Pennsylvania in the 19th century, but it did not persist.
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