Verbena tenera

Verbena tenera, commonly known as South American mock vervain, is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family.^[1] It is native to Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and it is present elsewhere as an introduced species and roadside weed.^[2][3] It is an annual or perennial herb producing one or more stems growing decumbent to erect in form and hairy to hairless in texture. The rough-haired leaves are divided deeply into lobes. The inflorescence is a dense, headlike spike of many flowers up to 1.5 centimeters wide.^[4] Each flower corolla is up to 1.4 centimeters wide and white to purple in color.

Verbena tenera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Verbenaceae
Genus:	Verbena
Species:	V. tenera
Binomial name
Verbena tenera Spreng.
Synonyms
List Glandularia tenera (Spreng.) Cabrera Shuttleworthia tenera (Spreng.) Walp. Glandularia pulchella (Sweet) Troncoso Shuttleworthia pulchella (Sweet) Meisn. Verbena erinoides var. alba Benary ex Wittm. Verbena geraniifolia J.Harrison Verbena mahonetii E.Vilm. Verbena pulchella Sweet Verbena santiaguensis f. albiflora Moldenke Verbena tenera f. albiflora (Kuntze) Moldenke Verbena tenera var. albiflora Kuntze Verbena tenuisecta f. alba (Benary ex Wittm.) Moldenke Verbena tenuisecta var. glabrata Moldenke