Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 21 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Trailing verbena.

Description:
Sparsely hairy procumbent or erect herb with branches 15-50 cm long, much-branched from the base; stems quadrangular with rounded angles separated by narrow grooves, strigulose; leaves petiolate, triangular or ovate-cuneate in outline, 1- or 2-pinnatipartite or -pinnatisect, 2-4 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, densely strigulose, the lobes bluntly toothed.

Spikes terminal, slender, shortly pedunculate, up to 10 cm in fruit; bracts lanceolate, strigulose, usually half as long as the calyx; calyx 4-toothed, 4-angled, c. 3 mm long, strigulose outside; corolla lilac, about as long as the calyx, pubescent about the middle of the tube outside.

Mericarps lightbrown, wrinkled in the upper part of the outer face, 2-2.5 mm long.

	Flowering branch, flower and opened flower.
Image source: fig. 545D in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Munir in Jessop (1981) Flora of central Australia, fig. 391; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 570.

Distribution:  Common weed in waste places and on damp or sandy grounds.   N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to the Mediterranean region. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: mainly Nov. — March.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available