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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Verbena urticifolia
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about White Vervain at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Verbena urticifolia var. urticifolia
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
Verbena urticifolia var. leiocarpa
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 162-01-007:
Verbena urticifolia FAMILY Verbenaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Verbena urticaefolia
COMMON NAME:
White Vervain, Nettleleaf Verbena, Velvetleaf Vervain
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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JK Marlow jkm120617_041
June Spartanburg County SC
The petioles of the leaves are up to 2" long, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm120617_045
June Spartanburg County SC
Slender branched divaricate spikes with a few scattered minute white flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm120617_047
June Spartanburg County SC
Leaves stalked, coarsely and somewhat doubly toothed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm180623_3016
June Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Flowers 1/8" across. The tubular green calyx has 5 lanceolate teeth, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm180623_3017
June Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Corolla lobes 1mm or less long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm190604_9042
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190604_9044
June Greenville County SC
Stems quadrangular, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm080729_003b
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm080729_011
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm190702_9638
July Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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Roxanna Martin rlm71110_170
July Spartanburg County SC
Minute white flowers in very slender spikes terminating stem and branches, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Roxanna Martin rlm71209_080
July Spartanburg County SC
To 5' tall, with very slender branched, divaricate, few-flowered spikes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Roxanna Martin rlm7210_60
July Spartanburg County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm7210_62
July Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm141025_339340
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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Roxanna Martin rlm10210_537
October Spartanburg County SC
Fruit a schizocarp, consisting of 4 well-developed, oblong, brown mericarps, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Verbena urticifolia
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Verbena urticifolia var. urticifolia
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Verbena urticifolia var. leiocarpa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 162-01-007:
Verbena urticifolia
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Verbena urticaefolia
1600
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: floodplain forests, mesic and dry upland forests, disturbed habitats, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed salverform corolla
4 stamens, attached to corolla tube
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About Weeds (Spencer, 1940) p199
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p282
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p081
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p345
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p215
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p254
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p138