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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Verbena simplex
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
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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
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ILLEGITIMATE NAME) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Verbena angustifolia
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 (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ILLEGITIMATE NAME)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Verbena angustifolia
3321
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Glades, prairies, woodlands, forests, rock outcrops, and roadsides, over limestone or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in GA Mountains & NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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 (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p412
- 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
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