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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Verbena simplex   FAMILY Verbenaceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Verbena simplex, Narrowleaf Vervain

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_vean4_001_lvd

        

image of Verbena simplex, Narrowleaf Vervain

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

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)

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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

 

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