Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx.
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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 - 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.
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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.
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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.
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| North Carolina United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America| West Indies| México Mexico North America|