Common Figwort

Scrophularia nodosa

"Scrophularia nodosa" is a perennial herbaceous plant found in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere except western North America. It grows in moist and cultivated waste ground.
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Evolution

Seed identification of "Scrophularia nodosa" has been made from sub-stage IIIa of the Hoxnian at Clacton in Essex, from the Middle Pleistocene.
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Cultural

The plant was thought, by the doctrine of signatures, to be able to cure the throat disease scrofula because of the throat-like shape of its flowers.

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