Glandularia bipinnatifida
Family: Verbenaceae
Plant Description: Annual to 35 cm high with prostrate or reclining-ascending stems, often forming mats. Leaves 1.5-6 cm long, mostly bipinnatifid, opposite. Flowers in headlike clusters, the corolla 6-15 mm wide, lavender, light blue-violet, or violet-purple.
Field Identification:
Plant Trivia:
Occurrence: Common on heavier sands and clay in prairies, openings, and waste places and roadsides
Bloom Period: February – May, occasionally October – December
Plant Use:
Key to the Genus Glandularia:
- Flower clusters 1.4 cm or more wide…………….G. bipinnatifida
Flower cluster about 1 cm wide…………………………………………………2
2. Corolla reddish purple…………………………………………………G. pumila
Corolla whitish to lavender………………………….G. quadrangulata
