Valerianoides jamaicensis (L.) Kuntze
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Verbenaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual, often purplish, with sparingly pubescent or glabrate foliage. Leaves alternate or opposite, oblong, ovate or oval, 2-8 cm. long, coarsely serrate, narrowed at the base, the petioles margined, as long as the blades or shorter; spikes stiff, 1.5-5 dm. long; bracts imbricated, lanceolate to oblonglanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, 5-8 mm. long; flowers in depressions of the rachis; calyx-lobes triangular or triangular-ovate; corolla blue, somewhat irregular, 8-11 mm. long, its tube slightly curved, the limb 8 mm. broad; nutlets 3 mm. long, buried in the rachis.
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Discussion
Waste places, coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Great Bahama and the Berry Islands to Andros, East Caicos. Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda : Florida : West Indies, and continental tropical America ; Old World tropics. Jamaica Vervain. Blue-flower.
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Distribution
Great Bahama and the Berry Islands to Andros, East Caicos. Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda : Florida : West Indies, and continental tropical America ; Old World tropics.
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|