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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Scrophulariaceae
Scrophularia marilandica L.
carpenter's-square, eastern figwort, late figwort
Scrophularia: named in 1474 by an Italian physician who noticed the resemblance between the rhizomal knobs of some species and the tubercular condition of human lymph nodes called scrophula
marilandica: of Maryland
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, up to 10' tall forb; sides of stems roundly-angled and with prominent grooves |
| Flower: | red/brown, 5-parted, 1/4"-1/3" long, tubular-shaped; 4 stamens, the sterile stamen purple; inflorescence a loose, irregularly-branched, pyramid-shaped cluster often 3"- 6" wide; blooms July-Aug. |
| Fruit: | somewhat shiny capsule |
| Leaf: | opposite, the stalk usually more than 1/3 as long as the blade |
| Habitat: | open; woods, roadsides |
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