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|accepted_name=Scoparia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 116. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Goat-weed;sweet-broom
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Scoparia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scoparia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin scopa, broom, and -aria, resemblance, alluding to appearance and use
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 12, 14, 270
|treatment_page=page 276
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs </b>[subshrubs], annual or perennial.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem orientation;stem orientation;stem orientation;stem orientation;stem orientation;stem pubescence"><b>Stems </b>decumbent, spreading, ascending, or erect, glabrous or puberulent to glandular-puberulent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf position;leaf arrangement;distal stem arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>cauline, opposite, distal sometimes whorled;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="petiole presence;petiole quantity">petiole absent or nearly so;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade texture;blade texture;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;surface coloration or relief">blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire, crenate, dentate, or pinnately lobed, surfaces distinctly punctate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence position;flower quantity"><b>Inflorescences </b>axillary, flowers 1–4 per node;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="bract presence">bracts present.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="pedicel presence;pedicel orientation"><b>Pedicels </b>present, spreading to ascending;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="bracteole presence">bracteoles absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="flower reproduction"><b>Flowers </b>bisexual;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal quantity;sepal fusion;calyx architecture or shape;calyx shape;lobe shape">sepals 4 or 5, proximally connate, calyx radially symmetric, short-campanulate, lobes ovate to elliptic-ovate or lanceolate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla shape;corolla shape;corolla shape;tube base shape;tube base shape;throat pubescence;lobe quantity">corolla white, sometimes tinged pink or lavender, or yellow or orangish yellow, radially symmetric, rotate or subrotate, tube base not spurred or gibbous, throat densely pilose internally, lobes 4;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="stamen quantity;stamen fusion;stamen size;stamen position;filament pubescence">stamens 4, proximally adnate to corolla, subequal, exserted, filaments glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="staminode presence">staminode 0;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="ovary architecture or structure in adjective form;ovary placentation">ovary 2-locular, placentation axile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="stigma architecture or shape">stigma capitate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="fruits capsule dehiscence;fruits capsule dehiscence"><b>Fruits </b>capsules, dehiscence septicidal and secondarily loculicidal.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="seed quantity;seed coloration;seed shape;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>50–200, brown to dark-brown, oblong or angled, wings absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="wing presence;wing quantity">× = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Australia
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 10 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=chodat1908a
|text=Chodat, R. 1908. Étude critique des genres Scoparia L. et Hasslerella Chod. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 8: 1–16.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Corollas white, sometimes tinged pink or lavender; calyx lobes 4.
|[[Scoparia dulcis|Scoparia dulcis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Corollas yellow or orangish yellow; calyx lobes 5.
|[[Scoparia montevidensis|Scoparia montevidensis]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Scoparia
|author=Craig C. Freeman
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|distribution=United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Australia
|reference=chodat1908a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Scoparia
|blade texture=not leathery;not fleshy
|bract presence=absent
|bracteole presence=absent
|calyx architecture or shape=symmetric
|calyx shape=short-campanulate
|corolla coloration=orangish yellow;yellow;lavender;tinged pink;orangish yellow;yellow;lavender;tinged pink;white
|corolla shape=subrotate;rotate;symmetric
|distal stem arrangement=whorled
|filament pubescence=glabrous
|flower quantity=1;4
|flower reproduction=bisexual
|fruits capsule dehiscence=loculicidal;septicidal
|inflorescence position=axillary
|leaf arrangement=opposite
|leaf position=cauline
|lobe quantity=4
|lobe shape=ovate;elliptic-ovate or lanceolate
|margin shape=lobed;dentate;lobed;dentate;crenate;entire
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=2-locular
|ovary placentation=axile
|pedicel orientation=spreading;ascending
|pedicel presence=absent
|petiole presence=absent
|petiole quantity=nearly
|seed coloration=brown;dark-brown
|seed quantity=50;200
|seed shape=angled;oblong
|sepal fusion=connate
|sepal quantity=5;4
|stamen fusion=adnate
|stamen position=exserted
|stamen quantity=4
|stamen size=subequal
|staminode presence=absent
|stem orientation=erect;ascending;erect;ascending;spreading;decumbent
|stem pubescence=puberulent;glandular-puberulent
|stigma architecture or shape=capitate
|surface coloration or relief=punctate
|throat pubescence=pilose
|tube base shape=gibbous;not spurred
|whole_organism duration=perennial;annual
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|wing presence=absent
|wing quantity=10
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