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California beeplant
Scrophularia californica
Scrophularia californica is a flowering plant in the figwort family which is known by the common names California figwort and California bee plant.
It is native to the western United States, including many habitats in California, and in British Columbia.
From the article Scrophularia californica on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Scrophularia californica is an unassuming plant with triangular, toothed, blue-green leaves in pairs opposite each other on a spindly, squared stem. The brownish-magenta flowers are rounded, hollow buds about a centimeter long with two long upper lobes.
At the table
Native American groups in northern Baja California have used the root of the plant to make a medicinal tea. The Pomo of northwestern California and the Ohlone of the San Francisco Bay Area used it as a poultice for infections and boils.
Wikipedia: “Human uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Scrophularia californica in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 50812.