Verbena tenera

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| genus = Verbena

| species = tenera

| authority = Spreng.

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• Glandularia tenera (Spreng.) Cabrera
• Shuttleworthia tenera (Spreng.) Walp.
• Glandularia pulchella (Sweet) Troncoso
• Shuttleworthia pulchella (Sweet) Meisn.
• Verbena erinoides var. alba Benary ex Wittm.
• Verbena geraniifolia J.Harrison
• Verbena mahonetii E.Vilm.
• Verbena pulchella Sweet
• Verbena santiaguensis f. albiflora Moldenke
• Verbena tenera f. albiflora (Kuntze) Moldenke
• Verbena tenera var. albiflora Kuntze
• Verbena tenuisecta f. alba (Benary ex Wittm.) Moldenke
• Verbena tenuisecta var. glabrata Moldenke

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Verbena tenera, commonly known as South American mock vervain, is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family.{{Cite web |title=Verbena tenera Spreng. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:263368-2 |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}} It is native to Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and it is present elsewhere as an introduced species and roadside weed.{{cite web|access-date=26 May 2014|author=Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed)|date=2014|publisher=Species 2000: Reading, UK.|title=Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist.|url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2014/details/species/id/11787364}}[http://www.itis.gov ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System], [http://www.cbif.gc.ca/eng/integrated-taxonomic-information-system-itis/ (Canada)], [http://www.conabio.gob.mx (Mexico)] It is an annual or perennial herb producing one or more stems growing decumbent to erect in form and hairy to hairless in texture. The rough-haired leaves are divided deeply into lobes. The inflorescence is a dense, headlike spike of many flowers up to 1.5 centimeters wide.[http://www.dyntaxa.se/taxon/info/221656?changeRoot=True Dyntaxa Glandularia pulchella] Each flower corolla is up to 1.4 centimeters wide and white to purple in color.