Slender Vervain
Verbena rigida Spreng.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 46 cm
- wide
- 38 cm
Verbenaceae
Also called Creeping Verbena, Veined verbena, Veined Vervain, Vervain Verbena, Tuberous vervain
Formerly Buchnera montevidensis, Verbena scaberrima, Verbena venosa
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Bolivia to UruguayKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: NC State Extension page does not state medium: it lists moist and occasionally dry soil, drought tolerant
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- シュッコンバーベナ, シュクコンバーベナ
- Czech
- sporýš tuhý
- Swedish
- violverbena
- French
- Verveine rugueuse
- Portuguese
- Verbena-lixa
- Chinese
- 糙葉美人櫻, 顯脈馬鞭草, 刚硬美女樱
- Danish
- Purpur-Jernurt
- Russian
- Вербена жесткая
- root
- Աղավնիճ կնճռոտ, morod
- Chinese (China)
- 细长马鞭草
- Dutch
- Hoofdjesverbena
- Polish
- Werbena żyłkowana
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Verbena rigida (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.