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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Verbena Family
  7. Vervains
  8. Sandpaper Vervain

species 712 observations

Sandpaper Vervain

Verbena scabra

Status
native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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73 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Common Looper Moth, Common Buckeye, Spotted Phosphila Moth, Theona Checkerspot 7
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Calycomyza verbenae 1
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Snow Bunting, Lapland Longspur, Mourning Dove, Swamp Sparrow 6
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Southern Plains Bumble Bee, Brown-belted Bumble Bee, Fiery Skipper 59

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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