| Author | (S. Moore) Troncoso | |
| Distribution | Mostly the southern Coastal Plain and Sandhills; also Mecklenburg County in the Piedmont and Currituck County on the Outer Banks. First collected in 1937 in Columbus County. Photographed in 2017 and 2021 in Iredell County at Lake Norman State Park by Gary Schneider.
Native of South America; in N.A. NC to MO, UT, and CA, south to FL, TX, and CA. | |
| Abundance | Uncommon to infrequent in the Coastal Plain, except rare in the southern Piedmont and Outer Banks. | |
| Habitat | Sandy roadsides, fields, vacant lot, campus weed, near wastewater treatment plant (Lake Norman). | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting March-October. | |
| Identification | This is a sprawling, branched plant that roots at nodes, growing to about a foot long. The leaves are finely dissected into skinny segments. The flowers grow crowded in a terminal spike, somewhat in a ball shape, the corollas tubular with 5 spreading, notched lobes, purplish-pink in color. No other Glandularia or Verbena in NC has such finely dissected leaves. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Synonyms include Verbena tenuisecta and V. pulchella misapplied.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | G5? | |
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