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Lippia alba

Botanic Family

Verbenaceae

Author

(Miller) N.E. Brown ex Britton & P. Wilson

Common Names

• Juanilama (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bahamas
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Turks & Caicos Islands
• Uruguay
• Florida
• Texas - USA
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Montane shrubland
• thickets

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Erect perennial herb, shrub, subshrub or vine, sometimes scrambling or procumbent. Aromatic fragrant leaves to 70mm x 23mm with serrate or crenate margins, strigose or puberulent above, tomentose beneath. Axillary solitary or paired inflorescence with flower heads 12mm x 8mm with bractlets 5mm x 3.5mm. 2-toothed calyx 1.5mm long, pinkish-blue to purple, white or yellow corolla, tube 5mm long.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke
• SAFIO
• Kew