The Scrophulariaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the figwort family. The plants are annual and perennial herbs, as well as shrubs. Flowers have bilateral (zygomorphic) or rarely radial (actinomorphic) symmetry. The Scrophulariaceae have a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority found in temperate areas, including tropical mountains. The family name is based on the name of the included genus Scrophularia L.
Scrophulariaceae
Leucophyllum frutescens
Floral symmetry describes whether, and how, a flower, in particular its perianth, can be divided into two or more identical or mirror-image parts.
[Left] Normal Streptocarpus flower (zygomorphic or mirror-symmetric), and [right] peloric (radially symmetric) flower on the same plant
Wurmbea stricta, its tepals in actinomorphic arrangement
Satyrium carneum. Ground orchid with typical zygomorphic floral anatomy
Digitalis purpurea (common foxglove) displaying an aberrant peloric terminal flower and normal zygomorphic flowers