Verbena officinalis
Verbena officinalis
Mineçiçeği
Perennial herb, 30-100 cm, with stiffly erect angular stems, vegetative parts ± densely adpressed-strigose, upper part of stem and branches also densely glandular. Median leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 2-11 x 1-5 cm, pinnatifid with irregular, entire or dentate lobes. Spikes slender, elongating in fruit, at least terminal spike finally 8-30 cm. Calyx 2-2.5 mm. Corolla pale lilac with yellowish throat, 4-5 mm, limb c. 2.5 mm diam. Nutlets 1.75-2 mm, sharply reticulate above. Fl. 6-8. Ruderal, on disturbed ground, rocky slopes, dry river beds, banks, walls, sand dunes, wood and scrub, etc., s.l.-1800 m.
Temperate and subtropical Eurasia eastwards to China; N. Africa; as an adventive almost cosmopolitan except in the coldest areas.
