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|accepted_name=Scoparia dulcis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 116. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Licorice-weed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Scoparia;Scoparia dulcis
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scoparia dulcis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 274
|treatment_page=page 276
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, usually much-branched distally, (17–)30–100(–150) cm, glabrous or puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: blade oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate or rhombic, 8–53 × 3–25 mm, base tapered to cuneate, margins crenate to dentate in distal 1/2. <b>Inflorescences</b>: flowers 1 or 2(or 3) per axil; bracts narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 4–35 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–10 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes 4, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 1.2–1.5 × 0.6–1 mm, margins ciliolate; corolla white, sometimes tinged pink or lavender, 2–2.5 × 3–4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid to subglobose, (1.6–)2–2.5(–4) × 1.4–2 mm. <b>Seeds</b>: 0.1–0.3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 40 (India).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Nov(–Jan).
|habitat=Marshes, wet hammocks, flatwoods, sandy woods, disturbed sites.
|elevation=0–300 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Scoparia dulcis</i> is a pantropical weed. Noting that it was a widespread weed in lowland tropical America, F. W. Pennell (1935) believed that it was adventive in the United States. Most United States floras consider it to be native in the flora area, and it is treated that way here.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Scoparia dulcis
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Nov(–Jan).
|habitat=Marshes, wet hammocks, flatwoods, sandy woods, disturbed sites.
|elevation=0–300 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Weedy;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Scoparia
|species=Scoparia dulcis
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