Scrophularia scorodonia

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Scrophularia scorodonia, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-25 / obs. 138823191

Scrophularia scorodonia, photographed by Carminda Santos — fig. b Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76171049

Scrophularia scorodonia, photographed by Duarte Frade — fig. c Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133982230

Scrophularia scorodonia, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31092511

Scrophularia scorodonia, photographed by aroche — fig. g aroche, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12998088

Scrophularia scorodonia, photographed by Crap Fou — fig. h Crap Fou, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27054817

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Scrophularia scorodonia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
France	FRA	EUROPE
Great Britain	GRB
Portugal	POR
Spain	SPA
Azores	AZO	AFRICA
Morocco	MOR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 24 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Scrophularia betonicifolia L.
Scrophularia biserrata Willd.
Scrophularia cantabrica Sennen & Elías
Scrophularia cordata Mill.
Scrophularia crenata Raf.
Scrophularia iberica Sennen & Elías
Scrophularia melissifolia Salisb.
Scrophularia papillaris Boiss. & Reut.
Scrophularia rugosa Wydler
Scrophularia scorodonia f. glabrescens Cout.
Scrophularia scorodonia f. verticillata Merino
Scrophularia scorodonia subsp. multiflora (Lange) Franco
Scrophularia scorodonia subsp. tinantii (Dumort.) Nyman
Scrophularia scorodonia subvar. viridiflora Druce
Scrophularia scorodonia var. acutifolia Rouy
Scrophularia scorodonia var. brevifolia Merino
Scrophularia scorodonia var. glabrescens (Cout.) Ortega Oliv. & Devesa
Scrophularia scorodonia var. longepetiolata K.Koch
Scrophularia scorodonia var. multiflora Lange
Scrophularia scorodonia var. papillaris (Boiss. & Reut.) Ball
Scrophularia scorodonia var. parvifolia Merino
Scrophularia scorodonia var. verticillata (Merino) Merino
Scrophularia scorodonifolia Gray
Scrophularia tinantii Dumort.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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