About Verbena aristigera S.Moore
Glandularia aristigera has scientific synonyms including Verbena aristigera S.Moore and Verbena tenuisecta. This species of flowering plant in the family Verbenaceae goes by many common names: moss verbena, desert verbena, fine leafed verbena, wild verbena, tuber vervain, South American mock vervain, Mayne's curse, and Mayne's pest. It is native to Bolivia, southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It has been widely introduced to drier tropics and subtropics across the rest of the world, including California, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Greece, Nigeria, eastern and southern Africa, India, and all of Australia except Tasmania.
