Verbena aristigeraS.Moore

WFO wfo-0000331659 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Verbena aristigera, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201164265
Verbena aristigera, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. b Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198579457
Verbena aristigera, photographed by Patricio Cowper Coles
fig. c Patricio Cowper Coles, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192877786
Verbena aristigera, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 190569674
Verbena aristigera, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 185968977
Verbena aristigera, photographed by Matthew Fainman
fig. f Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183855530
Verbena aristigera, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183877182
Verbena aristigera, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. h Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181450625

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Verbena aristigera is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Verbena aristigera, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 474 in flower of 477 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Verbena aristigera observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 474 of 477 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Glandularia aristigera (S.Moore) Tronc.
  • Glandularia cochabambensis (Moldenke) Liesner
  • Glandularia tenuisecta (Briq.) Small
  • Verbena cochabambensis Moldenke
  • Verbena tenuisecta Briq.
  • Verbena tenuisecta f. rubella Moldenke
  • Verbena tenuisecta var. alba Moldenke

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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