Verbena urticifolia

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Verbena urticifolia L. (N-Am.) – A very rare and ephemeral grain alien. First recorded at the Ghent Grain Terminal in the port of Gent in 1996 and later at the same locality also in 1997 and 2005 (always single specimens).Verbena urticifolia recently occurred in abundance at a pond margin in the Netherlands without obvious vector of introduction (van der Meijden & Holverda 2006).

Herbarium specimen

Verbena urticifolia

Verbena urticifolia, Gent, port (Rodenhuizedok), sandy waste ground at Ghent Grain Terminal, September 1996, F. Verloove

Selected literature

Nesom G.L. (2010) Taxonomy of Verbena urticifolia (Verbenaceae) and its close relatives. Phytoneuron 2010-14: 1-12.

Van der Meijden R. & Holverda W. (2006) Nieuwe vondsten van zeldzame planten in 2003 en 2004. Gorteria 32: 1-33.

Verloove F. & Vandenberghe C. (1997) Nieuwe en interessante voederadventieven in België en aangrenzend Nederland, hoofdzakelijk in 1996. Dumortiera 68: 13-26.

Taxonomic name:

Verbenaceae (Species List), Verbena (Species List), Verbena urticifolia (Species List)