FAMILY | VERBENACEAE

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The verbena family or vervain family is a family of plants many of which are tropical. 

                                                                                              

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LANTANA URTICOIDES, SALVIA, AND MILKWEED.  SUMMER BLOOMING TEXAS NATIVES (July 21, 2021, Tarrant County, Texas)

Lantana urticoides, also known as Texas Lantana, is a three- to five-foot perennial shrub that grows in Mexico and the U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi especially along the Gulf coast. The plant can blossom from spring until the first frost. It is a species of flowering plant within the verbena family, Verbenaceae. The name Lantana derives from the Latin name of the wayfaring tree Viburnum lantana, the leaves of which closely resemble Lantana.

LANTANA URTICOIDES (June, 19, 2016, Tarrant County, Texas)
Swallowtail butterfly

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Phyla nodiflora, the frog fruit, sawtooth fogfruit, or turkey tangle, is an ornamental plant in the family Verbenaceae, and is native to the area from northern South America to southern United States. It can be found in tropical areas around the globe, a naturalized species in many places. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

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Skyflower, Duranta erecta

Duranta erecta is a species of flowering shrub in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native from Mexico to South America and the Caribbean. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical gardens throughout the world, and has become naturalized in many places. Common names include golden dewdrop, pigeon berry, and skyflower. The genus name is in honor of Castore Durante, a fifteenth-century Italian botanist. The specific epithet erecta means "upright" in Latin. The plant is also known as D. repens, from the Latin for "creeping". The latter name was originally used to identify smaller-leaved varieties of the species.

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Porterweed and Gulf Coast, Passion Fritillary (October 16, 2018, Tarrant County, Texas)

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis is a species of plant in the family Verbenaceae, native throughout the Caribbean, including Florida. It has many common names including blue porterweed, blue snake weed, bastard vervain, Brazilian tea, Jamaica vervain, light-blue snakeweed, and, in St. Croix. It usually is found along country roadsides, and it also grows well as a ruderal plant on disturbed terrain.

Eudicots Asterids Lamiales Verbenaceae Duranta

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Golden Dewdrop | Duranta Erecta

GOLDEN DEWDROPS DURANTA ERECTA 

Duranta erecta is a species of flowering shrub in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native from Mexico to South America and the Caribbean. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical gardens throughout the world, and has become naturalized in many places.

The Duranta erecta has an upright form with gorgeous violet blue flowers bearing a white picotee edge on flared petal tips. It must be placed inside during the cold winter months.

Duranta (door-AN-tuh) Named for Castore Durante, 16th century botanist and papal physician to Sixtus V

Duranta prefers full sun and grows in zones 8-11.

Family | Verbenaceae

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Frogfruit | Phyla Nodiflora

 

Tiny Flowers, Make you Happy🎶🎶🎶

Frog-fruit, Phyla nodiflora is a low-growing native Texas perennial. It has verbena-like flowers and is a member of the Verbenaceae family. You can use it as a ground cover that has low foot traffic and in wet areas such as shaded riparian slopes. It will hold its leaves but might turn red during a mild winter in north central Texas. We had it growing in our cul-de-sac but one summer drought did it in. It needs to be watered. 

The white flowers are prolific, ½ inch heads, and bloom spring to fall. White flowers are used in moon gardens to reflect the light in the evening. Not only is it romantic the reflectivity helps enhance security and prevent tripping along paths leading into your home. 

Frog-fruit or sometimes referred to as fogfruit or lippia is tolerant of many soils and soil conditions. Sand, loam, caliche, clay, limestone, well drained or seasonal poor drainage and it even tolerates salinity. 

You can propagate it easily by root division and it will colonize by stolons. It tolerates most sun conditions, from shade to full sun.  It is a nectar source for pollinators and flowers best in full sun. It can be a host plant for the Phaon Crescent, White Peacock and Common Buckeye butterfly larvae.

Phyla  is a genus of eustarid plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. The name is derived from the Greek word φυλή (phyle), meaning "tribe", and most likely refers to the tightly clustered flowers or the spreading, mat-like growth.  Members of the genus are known generally as fogfruit or frogfruit. Species once classified in the genus Lippia may be known by the common name lippia. Some species, e.g. Aztec Sweet Herb (P. dulcis), are used in cooking.

Love them till the end of time.🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

Verbenaceae family

References                                                             

ITIS  Integrated Taxonomy Information System

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Lantana and Swallowtail Butterfly

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Family | Verbenaceae

RESOURCES

https://aggie-hort.tamu.edu/ornamentals/nativeshrubs/lantanaurticoid.html

https://www.gardenia.net/plant/lantana-urticoides

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantana_urticoides

References

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 "Lantana urticoides". Wildflower.org. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Retrieved 15 August 2017.

 "Lantana × urticoides". plantsoftheworldonline.org. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2018-08-15.

 "Texas Lantana". Aggie Horticulture. Texas A&M University System. Retrieved 15 August 2017.

 Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866453 (hardback), ISBN 9780521685535 (paperback). pp 230

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants (2006) Burrell, C. C.

Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region (2002) Wasowski, S. & A. Wasowski

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Callicarpa

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CREATING A WILDLIFE  HABITAT

Violet Ombré Berries

The mature purple berries feed cardinals and finches, and the shrub offers them a protective site.   

American Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana is a native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards. American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries.

Plant deciduous trees and shrubs along the south and west side of your house to provide shade in the summer, and, all the sun to provide solar heat in the winter.

During the Texas 2011 drought, I experimented with a planting of beautyberry to increase our use of Texas natives.  

The beautyberry is doing well this year and the dramatic purple berries are living up to the name.  

Beautyberries are possibly best used in a naturalized setting. I have included a White berried beautyberry (Callicarpa american var. lactea) in a corner of the backyard, underneath native oaks. 

Callicarpa L.  

      

Taxonomy:  Verbena Family Verbenaceae the taxonomy is undergoing many changes and depending on the system used, the beautyberry can be found in the Lamiaceae family | Mint Family in updated charts.

Additional Information:                                     

• Botanical Prints 
• LBJWC 
• TAMU    
• USDA
• How to prune for beautiful berries, from Fine Gardening
  

Explore the Genus Callicarpa.                                    

ACCEPTED SPECIES (ITIS)
Callicarpa americana L. – American beautyberry	southeastern United States from Texas to Maryland; Cuba, Bermuda, Bahamas
Callicarpa ampla Schauer – capa rosa, caparosa	Puerto Rico
Callicarpa candicans (Burm. f.) Hochr.	China, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia, Micronesia
Callicarpa dichotoma (Lour.) K. Koch – purple beautyberry	China, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia, Micronesia
Callicarpa formosana Rolfe
Callicarpa japonica Thunb. – Japanese callicarpa	China, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan
Callicarpa lamii Hosok.	Mariana Islands

References for the Genus Callicarpa.                       

Bradley, Steve. The Pruner's Bible: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pruning Every Plant in Your Garden. London: New Holland, 2006. Print.
Callicarpa Dichotoma 'duet'. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, 2008. Internet resource.
Hyams, Edward. Ornamental Shrubs for Temperate Zone Gardens. , 1967. Print.
Levine, Ketzel, and Rene Eisenbart. Plant This!: Best Bets for Year-Round Gorgeous Gardens. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2000. Print.
Marshall, William; Planting and Rural Ornament : Being a Second Edition, with Large Additions, of Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise; 48-109; Cambridge University Press : Cambridge
Paluch, Gretchen E, and Joel R. Coats. Recent Developments in Invertebrate Repellents. , 2011. Internet resource.
Zampardo, Mark. Guide to Identifying Trees and Shrubs Plants A-L: Includes Conifers, Vines and Groundcovers. Cork: BookBaby, 2014. Print.
Fire Effects FEIS     https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/calame/all.html
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website - Lamiales". Missouri Botanical Garden.
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants - Callicarpa". United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
Heywood, V.H., Brummitt, R.K., Culham, A. & Seberg, O. 2007: Flowering Plant Families of the World. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Leeratiwong, C., Chantaranothai, P. & Paton, A.J. (2009). A synopsis of the genus Callicarpa L. (Lamiaceae) in Thailand. Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 37: 36-58.
Bramley, G.L. (2009). The genus Callicarpa(Lamiaceae) on Borneo. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 159: 416-455.
Bramley, G.L.C. (2013). The genus Callicarpa(Lamiaceae) in the Philippines. Kew Bulletin 68: 369-418.
Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 4, 紫珠属 zi zhu shu,Callicarpa Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 111. 1753.
Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map
"Learning from our elders: Folk Remedy Yields Mosquito-Thwarting Compound". Agricultural Research. Agricultural Research Service. February 6, 2006.
Scientists Confirm Folk Remedy Repels Mosquitoes University Of Mississippi (ScienceDaily) July 3, 2006
Species Information". sun.ars-grin.gov.
Cantrell, C. L.; Klun, J. A.; Bryson, C. T.; Kobaisy, M.; Duke, S. O. (2005). "Isolation and Identification of Mosquito Bite Deterrent Terpenoids from Leaves of American (Callicarpa americana) and Japanese (Callicarpa japonica) Beautyberry". Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 53 (15): 5948–53. doi:10.1021/jf0509308. PMID 16028979.
CoL	Species 2000 Catalog of Life	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/
ITIS	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (USGS and Smithsonian	itis.gov
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life	https://eol.org/
BONAP (distribution maps)	Biota of North America	http://www.bonap.org
BONAP	Biota of North America	https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214613085-SCIOPS.html
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility	https://www.gbif.org/
USDA (maps)	United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database	https://plants.usda.gov/home
ARS-GRIN	Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)	https://www.ars-grin.gov/
LJWC	Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas Native Plant Database	www.wildflower.org/plants
TAMU (Texas)	Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas (Native trees)	https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/texasnativetrees/
UofTX (Texas)	The University of Texas, Billie L. Turner Plant Resource Center	http://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/K12/
iNat	California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society	https://www.inaturalist.org/
GSPC	Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC)	http://www.theplantlist.org/
WFO	World Flora Online (WFO)	www.worldfloraonline.org
MBG	Missouri Botanical Garden	https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/
NYBG	The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)	https://www.nybg.org/
RBGE	The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)	http://www.rbge.org.uk/
RBG	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	https://www.kew.org/
IPNI	International Plant Name Index	IPNI.org
(wetlands)	U. S. Army Corp of Engineers Wetlands, Vermont, N H.	http://wetland-plants.usace.army.mil/nwpl_static/v34/home/home.html
NAEB BRIT	Native American Ethnobotany (BRIT and University of Michigan - Dearborn) (SYOR)	http://naeb.brit.org
NPN	Native Plant Network - USDA Forest Service	https://npn.rngr.net/
SEINet (includes)	SW Biodivirsity	http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/
	Consortium of Midwest Herbaria
	Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria
	Intermountain Regional Herbarium Network
	Madrean Discovery Expeditions (MDE)
	Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium
	North American Network of Small Herbaria
	North Great Plains Herbaria
	Red de Herbarios del Noroeste de México (northern Mexico)
	SERNEC (Southeast USA)
	Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH)

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