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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Verbenaceae
Verbena bracteata Lag. & Rodr.
creeping vervain, large-bracted vervain, prostrate vervain
Verbena: ancient Latin name of the common European vervain
bracteata: Latin for "bracted"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | creeping annual/biennial/perennial, 1"-20" tall forb; stems square |
| Flower: | blue to purple, 5-parted, up to 1/8" wide, tubular; inflorescence up to 1/2" thick, terminal, hairy spike with many bracts; blooms May-Oct. |
| Fruit: | 4 linear, separating nutlets |
| Leaf: | opposite, deeply pinnately-cut or 3-lobed  |
| Habitat: | dry; disturbed sites |
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