A N F Keys
SCROPHULARIACEAE
FIGWORT
FAMILY
1 Evergreen shrubs or small trees
2 Shoots glabrous, leaves helically alternate; blades 40−110 mm long, not inrolled, conspicuously gland-dotted; cymes axillary and 1−8-flowered in distichous (2-planed) array; corolla white with magenta spots and villous to pilose in throat; drupe purplish .. Myoporum laetum [pics]
2' Shoots with dense stellate scales, leaves opposite (subopposite) and often tufted; blades 12−50 mm long, partially inrolled on margins, not gland-dotted; cymes terminal and many-flowered in dense, paniclelike array; corolla cream-colored with a dense, white beard; capsule .. Buddleja saligna [pics]
1' Herbs
3 Plant having a well-developed basal rosette and a tall, terminal, racemelike inflorescence; corolla 5-lobed, 25−30 mm across, bright yellow; capsules spheroid, 7−10 mm wide .. Verbascum virgatum [pics]
3' Plant lacking a basal rosette and having instead conspicuous cauline leaves and open, terminal and axillary, dichasial cymes; corolla 2-lipped, 4.5−7 mm across, dark reddish to reddish brown or maroon; capsules ovoid, 5−6 mm wide .. Scrophularia californica [pics]
NB. Check in families Orobanchaceae, Phrymaceae, and Plataginaceae for other genera formerly treated in Scrophulariaceae s.l.
The text of the above keys used with permission from
A Naturalist's Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills, California
© Copyright
Barry A. Prigge and Arthur C. Gibson
2013