figwort in English

noun
1
a widely distributed herbaceous plant with purplish-brown two-lobed flowers. It was formerly considered to be effective in the treatment of scrofula.
In the course of our short walk, Barry reckons he's counted no fewer than 16 species of the ‘prettier’ wildflowers, including cranesbill, herb robert, various clovers, ribwort plantain, figwort and dog rose.

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1. It's figwort tea- - great for that little pick-me-up we're all looking for in the morning.

2. The Broomrape family consists of plants with figwort-like flowers that are parasitic on other plants, typically feeding off their root systems

3. American Brooklime Veronica beccabunga americana / Figwort; Snapdragon Family Seattle, WA June 18, 2009 These little blue flowers were growing at Samammish State Park, but I saw them in Ashford and Silver Lake

4. Evidence from Cladistics has shown that classification of some groups based on structure did not correspond with the evolutionary origins of a group or species; Applications: Cladograms including humans and other primates; Reclassification of the figwort family using evidence from Cladistics; Skills:

5. Eremophila debilis, the winter apple or Amulla, is a flowering plant in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae, and is endemic to an area extending from north Queensland to near the border between New South Wales and Victoria in Australia.It is a prostrate shrub with lance-shaped leaves and …