| Scientific Name | Lippia nodiflora | ||||||||||||
| Family Name | Verbena ( Verbenaceae ) | ||||||||||||
| 5 petals, united at base
Low, creeping perennial to 1 ft. Stems numerous, 4-angled, often reddish purple, branching, swollen and rootng at nodes, upright at tips. Plants form dense mats often several feet across. Flower to 1/4 inch long; petals 5, white or pale lavender wih yellow in basal area, united, tubular, somewhat 2 lipped 4- or 5- lobed at rim. Flowers many, congested in small, globelike, terminal spikes; spikes elongating and becoming cylindrical with age. Leaves to 2 inch long to 5/8 inch wide, opposite, stalkless or almost so, blade thickish, sometimes wedge-shaped at base, sharp-pointed or rounded at tip; margins toothed from middle to tip of blade. The larvae of the phaon crescent butterfly (Phyciodes phaon) uses the leave as a major food source. Previously classified as Phyla incisa. Ajilvsgi p 125 | |||||||||||||
March - November
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