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figwort

Any of about 200 species of coarse plants that make up the genus (family Scrophulariaceae), native to open woodlands in the Northern Hemisphere. Figworts are tall, frequently foul-smelling plants with purple, greenish, or yellow flowers in large branched spikes.

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