Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Verbena x brasiliensis

Flowering stems. Photographer Bart Wursten, Zimbabwe.

Line drawings. USDA NRCS PLANTS Database Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Common name

Gin Case

Family

Verbenaceae

Where found

Forest margins, grassland, roadsides, wasteland, cultivated areas, and near streams. Sydney area and north. ACT. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced perennial herb to 2 m high. Stems 4-angled in cross section, surface smooth, hairy with minute hairs or almost hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 4–10 cm long, about 10–30 mm wide, tips pointed, base slightly winged, margins coarsely toothed, surfaces moderately hairy. Flowers bluish-purple, mauve or lilac, tubular, the tube 2–3 mm long, with 5 lobes. Calyx 5-toothed. Flowers in open branched clusters with long branches ending in a dense spike. Flowers throughout the year.

A possible hybrid between Verbena litoralis and Verbena is.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Verbena~x+brasiliensis 
(accessed 11 February, 2021)