Verbena pumilaRydb.

pink mock vervain

WFO wfo-0000332243 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Verbena pumila, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. a Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 196144845
Verbena pumila, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196254552
Verbena pumila, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. c Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187823300
Verbena pumila, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. d Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187000909
Verbena pumila, photographed by Wes Copas
fig. e Wes Copas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183452404
Verbena pumila, photographed by Sue Ann Kendall
fig. f Sue Ann Kendall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183286925
Verbena pumila, photographed by jeanetx
fig. g jeanetx, CC0 1.0 / obs. 181683949
Verbena pumila, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. h Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172618618

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Verbena pumila is native: Arizona, Arkansas, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas ArizonaArkansasMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestNew MexicoOklahomaTexas
Native distribution of Verbena pumila, 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
Arizona ARI NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
New Mexico NWM
Oklahoma OKL
Texas TEX

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 252 in flower of 259 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Verbena pumila 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. 252 of 259 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 2 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 pumila (Rydb.) Umber
  • Verbena inconspicua Greene

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol GLPU4. public domain. 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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