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Common Figwort

Scrophularia nodosa L.

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Foodplant / miner
larva of Amauromyza verbasci mines leaf of Scrophularia nodosa
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Cheilosia variabilis feeds on root of Scrophularia nodosa

Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Cheilosia velutina feeds on root of Scrophularia nodosa

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / open feeder
larva of Cionus alauda grazes on leaf (lower) of Scrophularia nodosa
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / open feeder
larva of Cionus hortulanus grazes on leaf of Scrophularia nodosa

Foodplant / open feeder
larva of Cionus scrophulariae grazes on leaf (upper) of Scrophularia nodosa
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / open feeder
larva of Cionus tuberculosus grazes on leaf of Scrophularia nodosa

Foodplant / open feeder
larva of Cleopus pulchellus grazes on flower of Scrophularia nodosa
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Napomyza scrophulariae feeds on Scrophularia nodosa
Remarks: Other: uncertain

Foodplant / parasite
sporangium of Peronospora sordida parasitises live Scrophularia nodosa
Remarks: season: 7-8
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
gregarious pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph of Phomopsis nitidula is saprobic on dead stem of Scrophularia nodosa
Remarks: season: 2-6

Foodplant / spot causer
epiphyllous, scattered, few pycnidium of Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph of Phyllosticta scrophulariae causes spots on fading leaf of Scrophularia nodosa
Remarks: season: 8-10

Foodplant / spot causer
epiphyllous, scattered, few pycnidium of Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph of Phyllosticta scrophularinea causes spots on live leaf of Scrophularia nodosa
Remarks: season: 7-10

Foodplant / spot causer
hypophyllous colony of Ramularia anamorph of Ramularia carneola causes spots on live leaf of Scrophularia nodosa
Remarks: season: 9-10

Foodplant / saprobe
scattered, subepidermal then erumpent, black pycnidium of Rhabdospora coelomycetous anamorph of Rhabdospora scrophulariae is saprobic on dead stem of Scrophularia nodosa
Remarks: season: 4

Foodplant / open feeder
nocturnal larva of Tenthredo scrophulariae grazes on leaf of Scrophularia nodosa

Foodplant / parasite
telium of Uromyces scrophulariae parasitises live leaf of Scrophularia nodosa
Remarks: season: 7-9

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Scrophularia nodosa

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Scrophularia nodosa (also called figwort, woodland figwort, and common figwort) is a perennial herbaceous plant found in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere except western North America.[1] It grows in moist and cultivated waste ground.[2]

Growth

It grows upright, with thick, sharply square, succulent stems up to 150 cm tall from a horizontal rootstock. Its leaves are opposite, ovate at the base and lanceolate at the tip, all having toothed margins. The flowers are in loose cymes in oblong or pyramidal panicles. The individual flowers are globular, with five green sepals encircling green or purple petals, giving way to an egg-shaped seed capsule.[3]

First year Scrophularia nodosa plant: swollen hypocotyl/stem with scars from the first four pairs of leaves (1-4). From (Warming 1884)

Fossil record

Seed identification of Scrophularia nodosa has been made from sub-stage IIIa of the Hoxnian at Clacton in Essex, from the Middle Pleistocene.[4]

Folklore

The plant was thought, by the doctrine of signatures, to be able to cure the throat disease scrofula because of the throat-like shape of its flowers.[5]

References

  1. ^ Mills, S., The Complete Guide to Modern Herbalism, Thorsons, Great Britain, 1994.
  2. ^ PLANTS Profile for Scrophularia nodosa (woodland figwort) | USDA PLANTS
  3. ^ "Figwort". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
  4. ^ The History of the British Flora, A Factual Basis for Phytogeography by Sir Harry Godwin, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN 0 521 20254 X, 1975 edition page 318
  5. ^ "Figwort". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2017-09-11.

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Scrophularia nodosa: Brief Summary

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Scrophularia nodosa (also called figwort, woodland figwort, and common figwort) is a perennial herbaceous plant found in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere except western North America. It grows in moist and cultivated waste ground.

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