Stachytarpheta

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Stachytarpheta (Greek, dense spike). Verbenaceae. Simple pilose, villous or glabrous herbs or shrubs, suitable for the warmhouse but hardy outside in the extreme southern United States. Leaves opposite or alternate, dentate, often rugose: spikes terminal, sometimes long and dense, sometimes short or lax: fls. white, blue, purple, or scarlet, solitary in the axils of the bracts, sessile or half sunk in the rachis of the spike; calyx narrow-tubular, 4-5-ribbed, 4-5-toothed; corolla-tube cylindrical, limb spreading, 5-cleft, lobes broad, obtuse or retuse; perfect stamens 2; ovary 2-celled: fr. included in the calyx, oblong-linear. —About 50 species, mostly natives of Trop. and Sub-trop. Amer. but one (S. indica) is dispersed very broadly in the tropics of Afr. and Asia. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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