Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Verbena rigida
Common name
Veined verbena
Family
Verbenaceae
Where found
Disturbed areas and roadsides. Mainly coast and ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 1 m high with a creeping rhizome. Leaf margins coarsely and sharply toothed. Stems 4-angled in cross section, surface rough. Leaves opposite each other, 4–12 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, rigid, surfaces hairless; bases somewhat cordate and partly stem-clasping, margins coarsely and sharply toothed, and often slightly rolled down; tips pointed. Flowers reddish purple, pale lilac or blue-violet, tubular, the tube 8–10 mm long, with 5 lobes. Calyx 5-toothed. Flowers in many-flowered branched clusters. Flowers throughout the year.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Verbena~rigida
(accessed 1 February 2021)
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