Participant Info

Species

Verbena bracteata [Verbena bracteosa] [Verbena confinis] [Verbena umbricata]

Family

Verbenaceae

CommonName

bigbract vervain, prostrate vervain, carpet vervain

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1915

LatestDate

2019

Ecosystem

shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Great Sand Dunes

Other Localities

Alamosa (town), Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, trail through foothills just S of Del Norte 19 June 2019

Comments

This native and widespread vervain may be adventive in the Watershed, where now it has spread everywhere and adapted to every kind of disturbed soil: street sides, road sides, parking areas, abandoned fields, railroad right-of-ways, lakes sides, etc. It has a remarkable ability to withstand vehicular traffic. Present in every state of the USA, it has followed the Rio Grande drainage to just past the Big Bend region of Texas.

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