Light-blue snakeweed
കടലാടി
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) Vahl
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- —
Verbenaceae
Formerly Abena jamaicensis, Stachytarpheta bogoriensis, Stachytarpheta pilosiuscula, Valerianoides jamaicensis, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. U.S.A. to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 30 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Chinese
- 長穗木, 假马鞭, 木馬鞭
- Japanese
- フトボナガボソウ
- Simplified Chinese
- 倒团蛇, 假败酱, 假马鞭
- Malayalam
- കടലാടി, ഇന്ത്യൻ സ്നേക്ക്വീഡ്, ഒടിച്ചുകുത്തി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.