UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR0057108
UCR-BPS-89484
UCR-89484
Scrophularia peregrina L.
Scrophulariaceae
Timothy S. Ross
6819
1993-03-24
1993-3-24
Steve Boyd
United States, California, Los Angeles, RSABG; collected on the SE edge of Indian Hill Mesa (also observed in the Bernard Field Station to the east of the Botanic Garden)
34.10917 -117.71103
402 meters (1319ft)
On a vernally moist clay embankment. Clay soils of the mesa as well as the granitic alluvium to the N and E
Flowering
Annual herb 10-60 (90) cm tall with light to medium green leaves, sometimes taking on a purplish-red tinge in full sun; corolla dull burgundy red. Robust speciments may look similar to S. californica, though differing in their inflorescence structure and annual habit. Native to the Mediterranean region. Apparently cultivated at RSABG inthe 1950’s by a graduate student studying Scrophularia, but subsequently escaping and becomming a weed here.