Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Verbenaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx.

  • Description

    Species Description - Minutely and rather densely puberulent, herbaceous, creeping, or the branches ascending, 3-9 dm. long. Leaves thickish, spatulate, oblanceolate, or obovate, 1-6 cm. long, 0.6-2.5 cm. wide, inconspicuously veined, mostly obtuse, narrowed into a cuneate entire base, sharply serrate above the middle; heads at length cylindric and 1-2.5 cm. long; corolla purple to white, little longer than the bracts.

  • Discussion

    Palmetto lands and moist waste places, Great Bahama, North Cat Cay, New Providence, Mariguana, Acklin's. Fortune Island, Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda ; North Carolina to Texas : West Indies : Mexico to northern South America ; warm temperate and tropical parts of the Old World. Referred by Mrs. Northrop and by Coker to L. canescens H.B.K. Cape-weed. Creeping Lippia.

  • Distribution

    Great Bahama, North Cat Cay, New Providence, Mariguana, Acklin's. Fortune Island, Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda ; North Carolina to Texas : West Indies : Mexico to northern South America ; warm temperate and tropical parts of the Old World.

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