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 nodiflora var. reptans
Hoary Frog-Fruit
Verbenaceae
Location: Gunsight Mountain Ranch, Tarpley.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Moist, alkaline, alluvial limestone. Semi-shade.
Description: Creeping perennial, rooting at nodes, widely branching, eventually ascending. Leaves 10x28 mm, widest beyond mid-length w/7 pairs of small antorse teeth distally, apex sub-acute, cuneate basally, opposite, medium green, strigillose-puberulent. Pedicels axillary, twice as long as the subtending leaves. Infloresence a dense cylindrical spike. Corolla minute/white.
County: Bandera
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jul 18, 1992
Specimen number: 468
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0676
Accession Date: Mar 22, 1994
Accession Number: 49
Annotations: SCFRN