Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Phyla nodiflora
Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene
Texas Frogfruit, Turkey Tangle Fogfruit, Frogfruit
Verbenaceae (Verbena Family)
USDA Symbol: PHNO2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), HI (I), PR (N), VI (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Phyla incisa
Sawtooth Frog-Fruit, Texas Frog-Fruit
Verbenaceae
Location: Vacant lot that will become #11 Bridlington Ct--Oakwell Farms.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun. Above average moisture from adjacent sprinkler system. Alkaline, alluvial soil.
Description: Creeping perennial, rooting at nodes. Internodes 7-9 cm. Some branches ascending. Leaves subsessile, narrowly obovate, with large, coarse, spreading teeth on apical 1/4. Infloresence globose. Axillary heads (maturing to cylindrical), peduncles to 9 cm. Corolla: white tube, flaring to 2 mm wide.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jul 28, 1987
Specimen number: 287
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0535
Accession Date: Aug 24, 1993
Accession Number: 40
Annotations: SCFRB