Yellow Scaled Figwort / خَنازيرِيَّة صَفراء السَّداة العَقيمة / / اقعيقعة

زيتة / غدب

Scrophularia xanthoglossa Boiss.

Flowers, March. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Unknown
Blooming period
March to April
Seed collection period
May to July

Description

Perenniality
Perennial
Petal colour
  • Crimson
Life form
  • Chamaephyte

Scientifc data

Genus
Scrophularia L.
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Wikidata item
Q17746074
GBIF Item
Scrophularia xanthoglossa Boiss. (3735218)

References

  1. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  2. Nehmé, M.(2008). Etymological dictionary of Syrian flora. Beirut: Librairie du liban publishers.(English, French, and Arabic)
  3. Scrophularia xanthoglossa Boiss. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-22.(English)
  4. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  5. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.

Citation

Scrophularia xanthoglossa Boiss. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/752 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.

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