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Glandularia aristigera is a low, spreading perennial or subshrub in the Verbena family, with small clustered purple or pink flowers. It is a tough, drought-tolerant groundcover that thrives in hot, dry, sunny spots with sharply draining soil.
Glandularia aristigera (syns. Verbena aristigera and Verbena tenuisecta), variously called the moss verbena, desert verbena, fine leafed verbena, wild verbena, tuber vervain, South American mock vervain, Mayne's curse and Mayne's pest, is a species of flowering plant in the family Verbenaceae. It is native to Bolivia, southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. It has been widely introduced to the rest of the world's drier tropics and subtropics, including California, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Greece, Nigeria, eastern and southern Africa, India, and all of Australia except Tasmania.
Verbena tenera · Purpletop vervain · Bigbract verbena · Brazilian vervain · Verbena canadensis · Swamp verbena · Seashore vervain · Herb of the cross · Verbena peruviana · Tuberous vervain · Vervain
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Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
