Hyptis verticillata Jacq.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Lamiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Erect herb or subshrub to 2.5 m tall with numerous lateral branches; stem obtusely 4-angled, not hollow, puberulent, becoming glabrous. Leaf blades 2.5-9.5 X 0.5-3 cm, lanceolate, chartaceous, puberulent on lower surface, the apex acute or acuminate, the base acute, the margins irregularly serrate; petioles 0.5-2 cm long. Flowers congested in leaf axils or in long terminal spikelike racemes; pedicels 0.5-0.6 mm long; bracts filiform, ca. 0.5 mm long; calyx green, bell-shaped, 1.5-2 mm long, puberulent, the lobes subulate-lanceolate, 0.6-0.8 mm long; corolla funnelshaped, pale blue or whitish, 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous; stamens not exserted. Seeds 4, ca. 1 mm long, ellipsoid-angled, light brown.
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Distribution
A common weed of disturbed, open ground. Cinnamon Bay (M17089). Also on St. Thomas; throughout tropical America.
Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America|