Scoparia dulcis L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Scrophulariaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual, glabrous, often much branched, 3-10 dm. high, the branches slender. Leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, opposite or verticillate in 3 's or 4's, serrate or the upper ones entire, short-petioled, acute at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, the lower 2-3 cm. long, the upper smaller; pedicels filiform, as long as the upper leaves or shorter, often borne in most of the axils; sepals oblong or oblong-obovate, acute, sometimes ciliolate, about 1.5 mm. long; corolla white, 3-4 mm. wide; capsule ovoid-globose, a little longer than the sepals.
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Distribution
Waste places, New Providence, Great Exuma : southern United Stales; West Indies ; tropical and subtropical continental America ; Old World tropics. Scoparia.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| United States of America North America| West Indies|