Verbena hispidaRuiz & Pav.

hispid mock vervain

WFO wfo-0000331959 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Verbena hispida, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. a Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-16 / obs. 173528071
Verbena hispida, photographed by Wilson Diaz Miranda
fig. b Wilson Diaz Miranda, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 168698733
Verbena hispida, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. c Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179009308
Verbena hispida, photographed by nmoorhatch
fig. d nmoorhatch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189682481
Verbena hispida, photographed by Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros
fig. e Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194145172
Verbena hispida, photographed by Sol Quipildor
fig. f Sol Quipildor, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 164952011
Verbena hispida, photographed by Sol Quipildor
fig. g Sol Quipildor, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125594978
Verbena hispida, photographed by Sol Quipildor
fig. h Sol Quipildor, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 110772137

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Verbena hispida is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaChile CentralChile NorthColombiaEcuadorParaguayPeru
Native distribution of Verbena hispida, 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
Chile Central CLC
Chile North CLN
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER

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.

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.

  • Verbena bangiana Moldenke
  • Verbena glandulosa Moris
  • Verbena hispida var. hispida
  • Verbena hispida var. obovata (Moldenke) N.O'Leary
  • Verbena parvula var. obovata 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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