NETTLE-LEAF VERBENA
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Verbena urticifolia L.
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| Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 2-7 feet |
| Family: Verbenaceae - Vervain Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August, September |
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| Also Called: | | White vervain, nettle-leaved vervain. | | Stems: | | Erect, solitary, slender, simple or much branched, bristly-hairy to nearly glabrous. | | Leaves: | | Opposite, simple, broadly lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 3 to 8 inches long, 1 to 4.8 inches wide, glabrous or with scattered soft-hairy; margins coarsely toothed; tips pointed; stalks .5 to 1.5 inches long. | | Inflorescences: | | Spikes, slender, arranged loosely, panicle-like, sparsely flowered, terminal; flowers remotely spaced; bracts at base of spikes inconspicuous; bracts below each flower inconspicuous. . | | Flowers: | | Calyces less than 1/10 inch long, pubescent; lobes awl-shaped, short, nearly equal, not united; corollas white, tube less than 1/12 inch long, barely extending beyond calyx, 5-lobed; lobes blunt; stamens 4. | | Fruits: | | 4 nutlets, to 1/12 inch long, each 1-seeded. | | Habitat: | | Woods, thickets, moist fields, waste areas, pastures, roadsides, and stream banks; heavy soils. | | Distribution: | | East 2/3 of Kansas. |
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