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Your search found 25 taxa in the family Verbenaceae, Vervain family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Brazilian Vervain
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas, old fields
Common
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Purpletop Vervain, Tall Vervain
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas, old fields
Uncommon in SC Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere in GA-NC
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Purpletop Vervain, Tall Vervain
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas, old fields
Common (rare in Mountains)
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
White Vervain, Nettleleaf Verbena, Velvetleaf Vervain
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas
Common Name:
Blue Vervain, Common Vervain, Simpler's-joy
Look for it in marshes, bogs, low fields
Rare south of VA
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in pastures and roadsides
Rare
Native: central US
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Vervain
Look for it in glades, woodlands, forests, and roadsides, over mafic or igneous rocks
Rare or uncommon in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Vervain, Carolina False Vervain
Look for it in sandy woodlands, sandhills
Common (rare in Piedmont, uncommon in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Stiff Verbena, Tuberous Vervain
Look for it on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Common (rare in NC Piedmont)
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Rose Vervain, Rose Verbena, Creeping Vervain
Look for it on roadsides, sandhills, other dry (esp sandy) soils
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Moss Vervain, South American Vervain, Moss Verbena
Look for it in pastures, roadsides, other disturbed areas
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
Non-native: South America
Look for it in dry prairies on clay soils
Rare in Coastal Plain, waif in Mountains
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Marsh Frogfruit, Northern Frogfruit, Lanceleaf Frogfruit
Look for it in brackish marshes, other marshes, ditches
Common in NC-SC (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Creeping Frogfruit, Capeweed, Turkey-tangle, Sawtooth Frogfruit
Look for it in interdune swales, shell middens, sandy soils of roadsides, lawns, ditches, impoundments, disturbed areas
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chaste-tree
Look for it in pastures, woodland edges, suburban woodlands
Rare
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
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Common Name:
Beach Vitex, Roundleaf Chaste-tree
Look for it on coastal dunes, planted for ornament & stabilization, and now spreading aggressively as an invasive species
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Non-native: east & southeast Asia & nearby islands
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Common Name:
American Beautyberry, French Mulberry, Beautybush
Look for it in hammocks, other forests (esp with sandy or rocky soils), maritime forests (the main habitat northward), disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Chinese Beautyberry, Purple Beautyberry
Look for it on roadsides, powerline rights-of-way, woodland edges, suburban woodlands, bogs, bottomlands
Uncommon
Non-native: Asia
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Waif(s)
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Florida Lantana, East Florida Lantana
Look for it in coastal strands, xeric hammocks, scrubby pine flatwoods, on the edges of brackish marshes, dunes
Rare (an endemic)
Native to Florida & extreme se GA; introduced in AL & SC
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Common Name:
Common Lantana, Hedgeflower
Look for it in disturbed areas, esp near the coast
Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Non-native: of garden hybrid origin
Look for it in disturbed and brackish areas
Waif(s)
Native: Texas & the West Indies
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Common Name:
Trailing Shrub-verbena, Polecat-geranium
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: South America
Common Name:
Clerodendrum, Rose Glorybower
Look for it on roadsides & in suburban woodlands
Rare
Non-native: east Asia
Common Name:
Harlequin Glorybower
Look for it on roadsides, streambanks
Rare, cultivated & strongly naturalized
Non-native: east Asia
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