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|accepted_name=Scoparia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 116. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Goat-weed;sweet-broom
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Scoparia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scoparia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin scopa, broom, and -aria, resemblance, alluding to appearance and use
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 12, 14, 270
|treatment_page=page 276
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>[subshrubs], annual or perennial. <b>Stems</b> decumbent, spreading, ascending, or erect, glabrous or puberulent to glandular-puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, opposite, distal sometimes whorled; petiole absent or nearly so; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire, crenate, dentate, or pinnately lobed, surfaces distinctly punctate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, flowers 1–4 per node; bracts present. <b>Pedicels</b> present, spreading to ascending; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; sepals 4 or 5, proximally connate, calyx radially symmetric, short-campanulate, lobes ovate to elliptic-ovate or lanceolate; corolla white, sometimes tinged pink or lavender, or yellow or orangish yellow, radially symmetric, rotate or subrotate, tube base not spurred or gibbous, throat densely pilose internally, lobes 4; stamens 4, proximally adnate to corolla, subequal, exserted, filaments glabrous; staminode 0; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigma capitate. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscence septicidal and secondarily loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 50–200, brown to dark brown, oblong or angled, wings absent. × = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 10 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=chodat1908a
|text=Chodat, R. 1908. Étude critique des genres Scoparia L. et Hasslerella Chod. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 8: 1–16.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Corollas white, sometimes tinged pink or lavender; calyx lobes 4.
|[[Scoparia dulcis|Scoparia dulcis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Corollas yellow or orangish yellow; calyx lobes 5.
|[[Scoparia montevidensis|Scoparia montevidensis]]
|}
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name=Scoparia
|author=Craig C. Freeman
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|distribution=United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Australia.
|reference=chodat1908a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_666.xml
|genus=Scoparia
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