Index / Search / Verbena bonariensis
§1 Plant
Verbena bonariensis L.
vernacular purpletop vervain — species · Verbenaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Verbenaceae J. St.-Hil.
- Genus
- Verbena
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
County-level range
· 36 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 36 counties across 8 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Abbeville 45001
- Aiken 45003
- Allendale 45005
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Chester 45023
- Colleton 45029
- Dillon 45033
- Edgefield 45037
- Fairfield 45039
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Greenville 45045
- Lee 45061
- Marion 45067
- Marlboro 45069
- McCormick 45065
- Newberry 45071
- Orangeburg 45075
- Richland 45079
- Williamsburg 45089
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VEBO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2925514 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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