Glandularia gooddingii (Southwestern Mock Vervain)

Glandularia gooddingii

Glandularia gooddingii (Briq.) Solbrig

Verbena arizonica Briq.

Verbena gooddingii Briq.

Verbena gooddingii Briq. var. nepetifolia Tidestr.

Verbena verna A. Nelson

Verbena verna A. Nelson var. fissa A. Nelson

Southwestern Mock Vervain, Goodding’s Verbena

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Lamiales	Aromatic herbs and shrubs, including lavender, lilac, olive, jasmine, ash, teak, snapdragon, sesame, psyllium, garden sage, mint, basil, and rosemary
Family	Verbenaceae	Verbena (vervain) family, about 3,000 species
Genus	Glandularia	According to Umberto Quattrocchi, this is from the Latin glandulae, “a little acorn, tonsils”
Species	gooddingii	After Leslie Newton Goodding (1880-1967), botanist and collector, one of the first to explore the southern Arizona area, who as a student journeyed to Yellowstone National Park to collect there and in the Montana/Idaho/Tetons area with Dr. Aven Nelson, founder of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium of the University of Wyoming. He discovered the rare Goodding’s ash, and had other plants named after him

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Glandularia gooddingii description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 12 Oct 2018.

4/30/2018 · Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve, CA
≈ 7 × 5" (18 × 12 cm)

4/30/2018 · Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve, CA
≈ 8 × 4½" (19 × 12 cm)

4/30/2018 · Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve, CA
≈ 6 × 10" (16 × 24 cm)

4/30/2018 · Kelbaker Road, Mojave National Preserve, CA
≈ 8 × 5" (19 × 13 cm)

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