Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Verbena gaudichaudii
Common name
Native Verbena
Family
Verbenaceae
Where found
Woodland, pastures, disturbed sites, and along streams. Coast and ranges mainly north of Thirlmere. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Herb to 1 m tall. Branches erect, 4-angled in cross section, surface smooth, hairless to hairy. Leaves opposite each other. Lower and mid-stem leaves 2-7 cm long, 5-30 mm wide, rough, deeply cut almost to the midrib, margins toothed, tips pointed. Upper leaves smaller, almost entire or sparsely toothed. Flowers blue, mauve or pink, tubular, the tube 3–3.5 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes. Calyx 5-toothed. Flowers in clusters at the tops of the stem, flowers soon well-spaced, rarely clustered in a very short spike at the top. Flowers mainly October–January.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Data deficient Vic. (as Verbena officinalis var. gaudichaudii).
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Verbena~gaudichaudii (accessed 10 February, 2021)
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