Common name: Common Verbena, Vervain
Verbena officinalis L. APNI* 
Description: Perennial herb 0.3–1 m high; branches erect, 4-angled, ridges smooth or finely scabrous.
Leaves shortly petiolate or sessile, strigose; lower leaves coarsely toothed to pinnatifid or 1–2-pinnatisect, 2–7 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide; upper leaves incised to subentire, smaller than lower leaves, ovate-cuneate, oblong or narrowly ovate; base ± acute; apex acute.
Inflorescence a lax terminal panicle with long branches ending in a spike; bracts shorter than calyx, with peduncle, bracts and calyx strongly glandular. Calyx 5-toothed, 2.5–3 mm long. Corolla pale pink or lilac, twice as long as calyx; tube 3–3.5 mm long.
Flowering: mainly October–January
Distribution and occurrence: Occurs throughout much of the State; also Qld, Vic., Tas., S.A. Native of Medit. region. Widespread weed of disturbed ground and waste lands.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *SC, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
B.J. Conn (1992)
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