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Verbena incompta; photograph (c) Lauren H, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) CC BY-SA(c) Lauren H, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · observed growing wild · 2020-12-26

Verbena incompta P.W.Michael

Small-flowered purple-top vervain; Purpletop vervain; Clasping vervain; Untrimmed vervain

Verbenaceae · Bolivia, Colombia +6

No habitat climate
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Summary

Verbena incompta, the purpletop vervain, is a species of plant from the genus Verbena. The species was described in 1995 by P.W. Michael.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Verbena incompta", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Verbena

Verbena, also known as vervain or verveine, is a genus in the family Verbenaceae. It contains about 150 species of annual and perennial herbaceous or semi-woody flowering plants. The majority of the species are native to the Americas and Asia; however, Verbena officinalis, the common vervain or common verbena, is the type species and native to Europe.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Verbena", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 59 of the 60 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil South, Argentina Northwest, Paraguay, Uruguay · introduced: Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Madeira, Zaïre, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malaya, New Guinea, Norfolk Is., New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, New Zealand North, Fiji, New Caledonia, Cook Is., Ontario, Québec, Oregon, Illinois, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Arizona, California, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-25.6, -57.42 · in the densest population, 25 records (42% of those in range)
Kew's description“annual or perennial” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 60 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 1297 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 59 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 60 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (4); (c) Lauren H, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Shaun Swanepoel, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Verbena 26 in the reference

Verbena bonariensis Verbena bonariensis Purpletop vervain Photo: CC0, author not statedVerbena bracteata Verbena bracteata Bracted vervain Photo: CC0, author not statedVerbena brasiliensis Verbena brasiliensis Brazilian vervain Photo: CC BY, Sam KieschnickVerbena canadensis Verbena canadensis Verbenaceae Photo: CC BY, EdieVerbena canescens Verbena canescens Gray vervain Photo: CC BY, Linda Jo ConnVerbena carolina Verbena carolina Carolina vervain Photo: CC BY, Neptalí Ramírez Marcial Verbena gemmea Verbenaceae Verbena halei Verbena halei Texas vervain Photo: CC BY, Sam KieschnickVerbena hastata Verbena hastata American vervain Photo: CC BY, Skyler PrincipeVerbena hispida Verbena hispida Hairy vervain Photo: CC BY, Matias BaranzelliVerbena intermedia Verbena intermedia Verbenaceae Photo: CC BY, Matias BaranzelliVerbena lasiostachys Verbena lasiostachys Vervain Photo: CC BY, klicklo all 27 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Verbena bonariensis subsp. brevibracteata; Verbena bonariensis var. brevibracteata; Verbena litoralis var. brevibracteata. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Verbenaceae
Described by
P.W.Michael
Native to
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador +5
Wild records
60 in range · 60 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 38 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (22 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 7 at a herbarium, 9 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 76 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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