Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Verbenaceae
(Verbena Family)


The Verbenaceae have slightly irregular flowers usually in elongate spikes. The leaves are usually opposite, and the flower petals are united into a tube with unequal lobes.

Aloysia wrightii (Wright's Beebrush)
Glandularia chiricahensis (Chiricahua Vervain)
Glandularia pubera (Davis Mountain Mock Vervain)
Phyla nodiflora (Turkey Tangle)
Tetraclea coulteri (Coulter's Wrinkle Fruit)
Verbena bracteata (Carpet Verbena)
Verbena hastata (Arrowhead Verbena)
Verbena macdougalii (MacDougal's Vervain)
Verbena neomexicana (New Mexico Vervain)


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