Verbena gooddingii (southwestern mock vervain)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Verbena gooddingii, photographed by er-birds — fig. a er-birds, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 196747781

Verbena gooddingii, photographed by David Batchelor — fig. b David Batchelor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203982519

Verbena gooddingii, photographed by Alexandre Passos — fig. d Alexandre Passos, CC0 1.0 / obs. 156749534

Verbena gooddingii, photographed by Tayton Alvis — fig. e Tayton Alvis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174840333

Verbena gooddingii, photographed by Nolan Exe — fig. f Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131039411

Verbena gooddingii, photographed by Kristin M. Tolle — fig. g Kristin M. Tolle, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118017109

Verbena gooddingii, photographed by dennismudd — fig. h dennismudd, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 74827727

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Verbena gooddingii, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Arizona	ARI	NORTHERN AMERICA
California	CAL
Mexico Northwest	MXN
Nevada	NEV
New Mexico	NWM
Utah	UTA

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 223 in flower of 228 examined

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Proportion of examined Verbena gooddingii in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	3	3	too few examined
Feb	10	10	100%	72% to 100%
Mar	29	30	97%	83% to 99%
Apr	64	65	98%	92% to 100%
May	54	55	98%	90% to 100%
Jun	9	9	100%	70% to 100%
Jul	2	3	too few examined
Aug	4	4	too few examined
Sep	19	19	100%	83% to 100%
Oct	15	15	100%	80% to 100%
Nov	7	7	100%	65% to 100%
Dec	7	8	88%	53% to 98%

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Verbena gooddingii 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. 223 of 228 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 5 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 gooddingii (Briq.) Solbrig
Verbena arizonica Briq.
Verbena bipinnatifida var. gooddingii (Briq.) Jeps.
Verbena verna A.Nelson
Verbena verna var. fissa A.Nelson

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol GLGO. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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