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
Verbenaceae
Location: Mitchell Lake, Polder #2, South San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Moist clay beside pond(polder). Almost full sun.
Description: Creeping, decumbent to ascending perennial, much branched, rooting at nodes, appressed strigose. Leaves cuneate; sessile, or nearly so,widest near apex, 4 pair large coarse, salient teeth near apex. Bractlets acute, imbricate, not conspicuously reflexed. Peduncles 1.5 x length of subtending leaves. Heads 5-10 mm thick. Fruit not present.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: May 30, 1992
Specimen number: 425
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0612
Accession Date: Nov 23, 1993
Accession Number: 44
Annotations: SCFRB