Licorice Weed

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.