Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Lamiales > Scrophulariaceae > Scrophularia > Scrophularia auriculataScrophularia auriculata (shoreline figwort)Synonyms: Scrophularia aquatica var. glabra; Scrophularia verticillata Scrophularia auriculata, the shoreline figwort or water figwort, is a perennial plant of the genus Scrophularia in the family Scrophulariaceae. It is found commonly in Western Europe and North Africa, on the margins of rivers, ponds and similar damp places.It is an upright plant reaching 70 cm with blunt oval, crenate leaves in alternate pairs on the greenish–purple square stem, most leaves may have two small lobes at their base. The spikes of flowers are held stiffly on square stems which arise from the main stem in the angle of the leaf stalks. The square stems have a wing running down each corner. These wings are more obvious than on the closely related common figwort (Scrophularia nodosa). The flowers are small, maroon-brownish and globular with two small lips above and below. The five |
Height [1] | 3.936 feet (1.2 m) |  | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | Structure [3] | Herb |  | Light Preference [2] | Mostly Sunny | Soil Acidity [2] | Neutral | Soil Fertility [2] | Rich | Soil Moisture [2] | Damp |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Bad Münstereifeler Wald |
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2118 |
Germany |
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Braunton Burrows |
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3328 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries/ Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd |
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163340 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Craven Limestone Complex |
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13166 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths |
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14161 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes |
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5491 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Exmoor Heaths |
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26455 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Fenland |
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1529 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Humber Estuary |
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90582 |
England, United Kingdom |
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In Geiern |
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69 |
Germany |
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Isles of Scilly Complex |
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66350 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Lizard Point |
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34565 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Lyme Bay and Torbay |
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77215 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Moselaue bei Nennig |
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467 |
Germany |
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North Norfolk Coast |
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7926 |
England, United Kingdom |
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North Pembrokeshire Woodlands/ Coedydd Gogledd Sir Benfro |
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780 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Pevensey Levels |
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8860 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Rdumijiet ta' Malta: Ir-Ramla tac-Cirkewwa sa Il-Ponta ta' Benghisa |
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5724 |
Malta |
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Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve |
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1777 |
Spain |
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Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren |
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182155 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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South Wight Maritime |
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49082 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Spreewald Biosphere Reserve |
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117355 |
Germany |
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The Broads |
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14554 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham |
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12696 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Wurmtal nördlich Herzogenrath |
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47 |
Germany |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004) ♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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