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Licorice Weed (Scoparia dulcis)

Description

This article is about a plant. For the moth that was described under an identical binomial, see Scoparia benigna. Scoparia dulcis is a species of flowering plant in the Scrophulariaceae family. Common names include licorice weed goatweed, scoparia-weed and sweet-broom in English, tapei-ava, tapixaba, and vassourinha in Portuguese, escobillo in Spanish, and tipych- kuratu in Guarani.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Lamiales

            • Family: Plantaginaceae

              • Genus: Scoparia