Verbena gooddingii Briq.
Verbena gooddingii Briq. var. nepetifolia Tidestr.
Verbena verna A. Nelson
Verbena verna A. Nelson var. fissa A. Nelson
Glandularia gooddingii (Briq.) Solbrig
Southwestern mock vervain, Goodding’s verbena
Southwestern mock vervain is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It prefers sandy or rocky habitats, such as dry sandy slopes, mesas, canyons, or roadsides, at elevations of 2100–5100′ (640–1554 m).
Plants: Several hairy, erect or decumbent stems 4–18″ (10–45 cm) long emerge from a common base. Stems are square in cross-section. The species often forms low mats.
Leaves: Hairy, opposite, ⅜–1½″ (1–4 cm), divided into 3 to 5 lobed, toothed leaflets.
Flowers: Rounded blooms contain many flowers. Buds are dark purple, while flowers are pink-purple and aging flowers turn blue. Each flower is tubular, with five notched petals, and is up to ½″ (1.4 cm) long. Flowers appear from April to June, sometimes over a longer period, depending upon moisture.
Fruits: Nutlets are gray to brown, 1/16–⅛″ (2–3 mm) in size, 5-toothed and 5-ribbed, each containing a single seed.
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Verbena arizonica Briq.
Verbena gooddingii Briq.
Verbena gooddingii Briq. var. nepetifolia Tidestr.
Verbena verna A. Nelson
Verbena verna A. Nelson var. fissa A. Nelson
Verbena gooddingii Briq.
Verbena gooddingii Briq. var. nepetifolia Tidestr.
Verbena verna A. Nelson
Verbena verna A. Nelson var. fissa A. Nelson
4/30/2018 · Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve, California · ≈ 5 × 7″ (12 × 18 cm) 
4/30/2018 · Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve, California · ≈ 8 × 4½″ (19 × 12 cm) 
4/30/2018 · Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve, California · ≈ 10 × 6″ (24 × 16 cm) 
4/30/2018 · Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve, California · ≈ 8 × 5″ (19 × 13 cm) 
| Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin) |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
| Division | Magnoliophyta | Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms |
| Class | Magnoliopsida | Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves |
| Subclass | Asteridae | A large class that encompasses asters |
| Order | Lamiales | Aromatic herbs and shrubs, including lavender, lilac, olive, jasmine, ash, teak, snapdragon, sesame, psyllium, garden sage, mint, basil, and rosemary |
| Family | Verbenaceae | Verbena (vervain) family, about 3,000 species |
| Genus | Glandularia | According to Umberto Quattrocchi, this is from the Latin glandulae, “a little acorn, tonsils” |
| Species | gooddingii | After Leslie Newton Goodding (1880-1967), botanist and collector, one of the first to explore the southern Arizona area, who as a student journeyed to Yellowstone National Park to collect there and in the Montana/Idaho/Tetons area with Dr. Aven Nelson, founder of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium of the University of Wyoming. He discovered the rare Goodding’s ash, and had other plants named after him |
Glandularia gooddingii description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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