Scrophulariaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Scrophulariaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls perfect, hypogynous, sympetalous (rarely apetalous); cal 4–5-lobed or cleft; cor 5-lobed or less often 4-lobed, slightly to usually evidently irregular, often evidently bilabiate, sometimes spurred or saccate at base; stamens borne on the cor-tube alternate with the lobes, typically 4, or only 4 functional and the fifth (uppermost) one staminodial, sometimes only 2 (the upper lateral pair), seldom (Verbascum) 5 and all polliniferous; ovary superior, bilocular, with a terminal style and simple or 2-lobed stigma; placentation axile; fr mostly capsular; seeds (2–) ± numerous, with a straight or slightly curved dicotyledonous embryo and oily endosperm; herbs (all ours) or seldom woody plants, not infrequently hemiparasitic on the roots of other plants, but usually green even so; lvs exstipulate, opposite or alternate, simple to sometimes pinnately dissected, the fls in various sorts of infls, often large and showy. 190/4000.
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Common Names
The figwort family