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Digital Herbaria

Verbena brasiliensis

Verbena brasiliensis Vell.

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USDA Symbol: VEBR2
USDA Native Status: L48 (I), HI (I)







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Specimen & Label Data

Verbena brasilensis

Brazilian Vervain

Verbenaceae

Location: NE corner of Salado Creek and low-water crossing on road from main base of Ft Sam Houston to Pershing Firing Range, San Antonio.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Small colony in damp alluvial soil & full sun.

Description: Stout, rigidly erect perennial 7+ dm tall. Stem very square, slightly contracted at the nodes. Leaves linear-elliptic sharply acute apically, w/cuneate, subsessile base, sharply serrate, opposite. Spike compact, sessile, in open cymes, numerous. Corolla lilac, the tube barely exceeding the calyx.

County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Oct 12, 1994
Specimen number: 718

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 1000
Accession Date: Jan 24, 1995
Accession Number: 78

Annotations: SCFXB (In flower & fruit)

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