Verbena haleiSmall

Texas vervain

WFO wfo-0000331931 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Verbena halei, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. a saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204861439
Verbena halei, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. b saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204748771
Verbena halei, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. c saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204863345
Verbena halei, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. d Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195395079
Verbena halei, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. e saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192498348
Verbena halei, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. f Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188719555
Verbena halei, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. g saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197776619
Verbena halei, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. h Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198427055

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 918 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 918 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 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.

  • Verbena gaudichaudii (Briq.) P.W.Michael
  • Verbena halei f. albiflora L.I.Davis
  • Verbena halei f. parviflora Moldenke
  • Verbena halei f. roseiflora (Benkr) Moldenke
  • Verbena leucanthemifolia Greene
  • Verbena officinalis f. roseiflora Benkr
  • Verbena officinalis subsp. halei (Small) S.C.Barber
  • Verbena officinalis var. gaudichaudii Briq.
  • Verbena officinalis var. halei (Small) Munir
  • Verbena officinalis var. hirsuta Torr.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.