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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Verbena simplex
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Narrowleaf Vervain at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Verbena simplex
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 162-01-010:
Verbena simplex
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
COMMON NAME:
Narrowleaf Vervain
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vean4_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_verbena_simplexa
May
Flowers occur on one or more blunt-tipped spikes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Verbena simplex
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Verbena simplex
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 162-01-010:
Verbena simplex
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
3321
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare or uncommon in GA-NC-SC
Look for it in glades, woodlands, forests, and roadsides, over mafic or igneous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Purplish-blue
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed salverform corolla
4 stamens, attached to corolla tube
Superior ovary
Flowers in blunt-tipped spikes
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p412
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p215
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p254
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p138