FIGWORT FAMILY 



SCROPHULARIACEAE 



HARE FIGWORT 



Scrophularin Uporella Bicknell 



The Hare Figwort grows mostly in woods from Vermont to 

 Minnesota and south to Virginia and Kansas, and blooms from 

 May to July. The stem is sharply 4-angled with flat sides, grows 



3-8 feet high and is not 

 much branched except 

 in the inflorescence. It is 

 somewhat glandular and 

 sticky near the top. The 

 leaves are smooth on 

 both sides when mature. 

 Rather small greenish 

 purple flowers are pro- 

 duced in a large and 

 much branched inflor- 

 escence. The calyx is 

 about equally 5-cleft. 

 The corolla, shining out- 

 side and dull within, is 

 5-lobed and very irregu- 

 lar, the 1 upper lobes be- 

 ing much longer than the 

 others and erect, the 2 

 lateral also erect and the 

 lower I usually turned 

 down. Four perfect sta- 

 mens, in pairs, are mostly 

 included within the corolla tube. There is also a sterile stamen 

 which is reduced to a greenish yellow scale on the roof of the tube. 

 The style is slender but the stigma is somewhat enlarged. The 

 ripe fruit is a brown, ovoid and cone-peaked capsule. 



The Maryland Figwort, Scrophularia marilandica L., begins 

 blooming in July at about the end of the Hare Figwort's season and 

 continues into September. Habits and foliage of the two species are 

 very similar. This plant's corolla is greenish and dull outside, and 

 brownish purple and shining within, and the 2 upper lobes are not 

 much longer than the others. The sterile stamen or scale is deep 

 purple. This is considered a good honey plant. 



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