Seasonal Wild Flowers

Balm-leaved Figwort

Scrophularia scorodonia

Scrophulariaceae

June to September

It is mainly confined to the far Southwest and the Scilly

Islands,

and a few scattered places in the South and Southeast.

See the BSBI distribution map for Balm-leaved Figwort

It is a neophyte which was found in the far Southwest in

the 1710s.

It grows in hedge banks and waste ground close to the

sea.

Balm-leaved Figwort is a, persistent, perennial herb,

growing up to 1m or so.

The flowers are up to 1cm and are red-purple-brown.

The staminode is round.

The sepals have a pale edge.

Leaves are oval and crinkly.

Stems are slightly angled but appear rounded.

They are unwinged.

Balm-leaved Figwort, Tresco

Whorl of flowers and seed capsules

Flower showing round staminode

Flower from above, edged sepals, capitate stigma

Oval, crinkly leaves

Angled stem