Scrophularia desertorum
Aliso 5: 174. 1962.
Endemic
Basionym: Scrophularia californica var. desertorum Munz Aliso 4: 99. 1958
Herbs, perennial, 7–12 dm; herbage light gray-green, glabrate or glandular-pubescent. Leaves: petiole length 1/6–1/2 blade; blade lanceolate, 4–8 (–12) cm, length 2.2–3.5 times width, fleshy fresh, base truncate to cuneate, margins serrate to dentate. Pedicels slender, glabrate or stipitate-glandular. Flowers: corolla brick-red to cream, bicolored, sometimes unicolored, paler abaxially, abaxial lobe often cream to white, 7–9 mm, throat relatively open; staminode clavate, length greater than width. 2n = 96.
Phenology: Flowering Apr–Aug.
Habitat: Rocky slopes, canyons, gravelly washes.
Elevation: 800–3300 m.
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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"greater than width" is not a number.
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lateral +
hypogynous +
fresh +
2.2-3.5 +
lanceolate +
fleshy +
absent +
absent +
symmetric +
campanulate +
decussate;opposite +
symmetric +
inflated +
constricted +
glandular-puberulent +
bisexual +
septicidal +
pear--shaped +
fleshy +
light gray-green +
simple +
persistent +
axile +
superior +
anatropous +
axillary +
absent +
slender +
hypogynous +
connate +
absent +
2-carpellate +
Aliso +
1962 +
100;130 +
rugose +
oblong-ovoid +
middle +
Endemic +
fascicles +
didynamous +
adnate +
equal +
absent +
rudimentary +
clavate +
erect +
absent +
absent +
Scrophularia desertorum +
Scrophularia +
species +
open +
perennial +
autotrophic +
not fleshy +
absent +