Capraria

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{For|the Italian island known in ancient times as Capraria|Capraia}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Capraria biflora (Scott Zona) 001.jpg

|image_caption = Capraria biflora

|taxon = Capraria

|authority = L. (1753){{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?2053 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121211195507/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?2053 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-11 |title=Genus: Capraria L. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2006-04-20 |access-date=2011-10-15 }}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 7; see text

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37513-1 Capraria L.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 August 2024.

|synonyms =

• Pogostoma {{small|Schrad. (1831)}}
• Xuarezia {{small|Ruiz & Pav. (1794)}}

|synonyms_ref =

}}

Capraria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Scrophulariaceae.{{cite journal |first=Etelvina |last=Gándara |author2=Victoria Sosa |title=Testing the monophyly and position of the North American shrubby desert genus Leucophyllum (Scrophulariaceae: Leucophylleae) |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=171 |number=3 |pages=508–518 |date=March 2013 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01327.x|doi-access=free }} It includes seven species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Mexico through Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and northern South America to northern Argentina. It is sometimes placed in the families Gratiolaceae, Plantaginaceae, or Veronicaceae. The name is derived from the Latin word caprarius, meaning "pertaining to goats." This refers to goats being one of the few herbivores that will graze on the plants.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eS7lX_rC3GEC |first=Daniel F. |last=Austin |title=Florida Ethnobotany |publisher=CRC Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8493-2332-4 |pages=261–262}}