Taxon: Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) Vahl

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Common names:

• bastard-vervain   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• blue porterweed   (Source: J Adel BG 14:145.) – English
  
• blue snakeweed   (Source: J Adel BG 14:145.) – English
  
• Brazilian-tea   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• Indian snakeweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Jamaica-vervain   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• Jamaican porterweed   (Source: HortScience 44:1849) – English
  
• Jamaican snakeweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• light-blue snakeweed   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• pale blue snakeweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• verbena azul   (Source: J Adel BG 14:145.) – Spanish
  
• verbena mansa   (Source: J Adel BG 14:145. [as "manza"]) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide WorldWeeds)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.?], Florida
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Bermuda; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British) - Tortola; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Bahia, Mato Grosso, Para, Pernambuco, Roraima
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador - Guayas

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Equatorial Guinea
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Kiribati - Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands; New Caledonia; Niue; Solomon Islands; Tonga

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Atkins, S. 2005. The genus Stachytarpheta (Verbenaceae) in Brazil. Kew Bull. 60:187.
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Chen, S.-H. & M.-J. Wu. 2003. Remarks on the species of Stachytarpheta (Verbenaceae) of Taiwan. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 44:167–174.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Hajra, P. K. et al., eds. 1996–. Materials for the flora of Arunachal Pradesh.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jardín Botánico Nacional. 1998–. Flora de la República de Cuba.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Munir, A. A. 1992. A taxonomic revision of the genus Stachytarpheta Vahl (Verbenaceae) in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 14:139–145.
• Nelson, C. H. N. 2008. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Honduras.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Proctor, G. R. 1984. Flora of the Cayman Islands. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XI.
• Singh, N. P. et al., eds. 2000–2001. Flora of Maharashtra state.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verma, D. M. et al. (vol. 1); V. Mudgal et al. (vol. 2). 1993–. Flora Madhya Pradesh.
• Wilson, S. B. et al. 2009. Seed production and viability of eight porterweed selections grown in northern and southern Florida. HortScience 44:1842–1849.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1982. Guide to the vascular plants of central Florida.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Stachytarpheta indica auct. nonn.
  
• (≡) Verbena jamaicensis L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) Vahl:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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