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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Scoparia |
| Species: | S. dulcis
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| Binomial name | |
| Scoparia dulcis | |
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Scoparia dulcis is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family. Common names include licorice weed,[2] goatweed,[3] scoparia-weed and sweet-broom in English, tapeiçava, tapixaba, and vassourinha in Portuguese, escobillo in Spanish, and tipychä kuratu in Guarani.[4] It is native to the Neotropics but it can be found throughout the tropical and subtropical world.[4]
Although S. dulcis is considered a weed in many parts of India and Bangladesh, its use in traditional medicine has led to overexploitation.[5] The plant is also found as a weed in American citrus groves.[3]
- ^ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 22 May 2016
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Scoparia dulcis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ a b Jain, Rakesh; Singh, Megh (1989). "Factors Affecting Goatweed (Scoparia dulcis) Seed Germination". Weed Science. 37 (6): 766–70. doi:10.1017/S0043174500072817. JSTOR 4044996.
- ^ a b "Scoparia dulcis". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ Majumder, S; Rahman, MM; Bhadra, SK (2011). "Micropropagation of Scoparia dulcis Linn. through induction of indirect organogenesis" (PDF). Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. 19 (1): 11–7.