Scoparia

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Scrophulariaceae

• Scientific Name

  Scoparia

• Description

  
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  Description - Herbs or low shrubs, mostly branched, with opposite or verticillate, punctate leaves, and small braetless pedicelled flowers solitary or in pairs in the axils. Calyx 4-5-parted, the segments nearly distinct, imbricated. Corolla nearly rotate, 4-cleft, densely bearded in the throat, its lobes nearly equal, obtuse. Stamens 4, nearly equal; filaments filiform; anther-sacs distinct, parallel or divergent. Style clavate above; stigma truncate or notched; ovules many. Capsules septicidally dehiscent, its valves entire, membranous. Seeds many, angular. [Latin, a broom.] About 6 species, of tropical and subtropical America, the following typical one also widely distributed in warm and tropical parts of the Old World.