Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Verbena halei
Verbena halei Small
Texas Vervain, Slender Verbena, Texas Verbena, Slender Vervain
Verbenaceae (Verbena Family)
USDA Symbol: VEHAUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Verbena officinale ssp. halei
Slender Vervain, Texas Vervain
Verbenaceae
Location: E edge of large ditch & 10 m N of E end of East-West Path--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun, in disturbed soil (caliche). Many, but scattered.
Description: Erect perennial, 25 cm tall, much branched about the middle, all branches terminating in slender, elongate, paniculate spikes. Leaves variable: basal & lower cauline--oblong to ovate, tapering into a petiole as long as blade, irregularly dentate; dentation decreasing on those toward branch terminals; all strigillose. Corolla blue, tubular, 3.5 mm long, limb 6 mm broad.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: May 4, 1994
Specimen number: 590
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0877
Accession Date: Aug 23, 1994
Accession Number: 66
Annotations: SCFRB (In flower & fruit) [=v. halei]