''Glandularia'',

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mock vervain or mock verbena, is a

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of annual and

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s in the

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. They are

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to the Americas.

Description

These plants, like their relatives the vervains (verbenas), usually have showy five-petalled flowers in shades of pink, purple and blue.

Taxonomy

''Glandularia'' species are closely related to the true vervains and sometimes still included with them in ''

Verbena ''Verbena'' (), also known as vervain or verveine, is a genus in the family Verbenaceae. It contains about 150 species of annual and perennial herbaceous or semi-woody flowering plants. The majority of the species are native to the Americas a ...

''.

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transfer occurred at least twice and possibly three times between these genera, which are otherwise too distinct to warrant unification. Somehow, chloroplasts from '' V. orcuttiana'', swamp verbena ('' V. hastata'') or a close relative of these had admixed into the '' G. bipinnatifida''

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. Although

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runs rampant in the true and mock vervains – the ancestors of the well-known

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are quite obscure – it does not seem to have been the cause of the cross-species gene transfer. Research has found a signal of one more transfer event. This had introduced chloroplasts from an ancestral member of the ''Verbena'' lineage nowadays found in South America into ''Glandularia''. Although all members of the present genus can be distinguished to have a chromosome count of five, the South American species are

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, while

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hybrid ''Glandularia'' are very widespread from northern Central America northwards. The second genetic introgression must have occurred before the genus spread north, as species with the ''Verbena''-like chloroplasts are found all over the Americas. Since the new chloroplast genes replaced the old ones, it may be that the possibly hybridogenic ''G. bipinnatifida'' actually underwent horizontal chloroplast transfer twice in its evolutionary history.

Cultivation

A large number of

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s, in shades of white, pink, blue and purple, have been developed for garden use, and are particularly suitable for containers - window-boxes and hanging baskets. Though tender perennials, they are usually grown in temperate areas as half-hardy annuals (sown under glass), or sold as young plants for planting out after the danger of frost has passed. They are still widely referenced in the British horticulture trade as verbenas. The following have gained the

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:- *’Claret’ *’Donalena Lavender Grace’ (Donalena Series) *Quartz Series *’Silver Anne’ *’Sissinghurst’ *’Toronto’ (''G. canadensis'')

Species

The following species are recognised by ''

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Glandularia alejandrana ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ( ...

'' B.L.Turner *'' Glandularia amoena'' (Paxton) Umber *''

Glandularia andalgalensis ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (Moldenke) P.Peralta *'' Glandularia angustilobata'' (Moldenke) P.Peralta & V.Thode *''

Glandularia araucana ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

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Glandularia aristigera ''Verbena aristigera'' (syns. ''Glandularia aristigera'' and ''Verbena tenuisecta''), variously called the moss verbena, desert verbena, fine leafed verbena, wild verbena, tuber vervain, South American mock vervain, Mayne's curse and Mayne's pest ...

'' (S.Moore) Tronc. *'' Glandularia atacamensis'' (Reiche) J.M.Watson & A.E.Hoffm. *'' Glandularia aurantiaca'' (Speg.) Botta *'' Glandularia bajacalifornica'' (Moldenke) Umber *'' Glandularia balansae'' (Briq.) N.O'Leary *''

Glandularia bipinnatifida ''Glandularia bipinnatifida'', commonly called Dakota mock vervain, prairie verbena, and Moradilla, among others, is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family (Verbenaceae). It is native to the North America, where its natural range ext ...

'' (Schauer) Nutt. – Dakota mock vervain *'' Glandularia brachyrhynchos'' G.L.Nesom & Vorobik *'' Glandularia cabrerae'' (Moldenke) Botta *''

Glandularia canadensis ''Verbena canadensis'' (syn. ''Glandularia canadensis''), commonly known as rose mock vervain, rose verbena, clump verbena or rose vervain is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the verbena family (Verbenaceae The Verbenaceae ( ), the ve ...

'' (L.) Small – rose mock vervain *'' Glandularia catharinae'' (Moldenke) N.O'Leary & P.Peralta *'' Glandularia cheitmaniana'' (Moldenke) Botta & Poggio *'' Glandularia chiricahensis'' Umber *'' Glandularia clavata'' (Ruiz & Pav.) Botta *'' Glandularia corymbosa'' (Ruiz & Pav.) N.O'Leary & P.Peralta *'' Glandularia delticola'' (Small ''ex'' Perry) Umber *'' Glandularia dissecta'' (Willd. ''ex'' Spreng.) Schnack & Covas *'' Glandularia dusenii'' (Moldenke) N.O'Leary & P.Peralta *''

Glandularia elegans ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (Kunth) Umber *'' Glandularia flava'' (Gillies & Hook.) Schnack & Covas *'' Glandularia gooddingii'' (Briq.) Solbrig – southwestern mock vervain *'' Glandularia guaibensis'' P.Peralta & V.Thode *'' Glandularia guaranitica'' Tronc. *'' Glandularia gynobasis'' (Wedd.) N.O'Leary & P.Peralta *''

Glandularia hassleriana ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (Briq.) Tronc. *'' Glandularia hatschbachii'' (Moldenke) N.O'Leary & P.Peralta *'' Glandularia herteri'' (Moldenke) Tronc. *'' Glandularia humifusa'' (Cham.) Botta *'' Glandularia jordanensis'' (Moldenke) N.O'Leary & P.Peralta *'' Glandularia kuntzeana'' (Moldenke) Tronc. *'' Glandularia laciniata'' (L.) Schnack & Covas *'' Glandularia lilacina'' (Greene) Umber – Cedros Island verbena *''

Glandularia lilloana ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (Moldenke) Botta *'' Glandularia lipozygioides'' (Walp.) L.E.Navas *''

Glandularia lobata ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (Vell.) P.Peralta & V.Thode *'' Glandularia macrosperma'' (Speg.) Tronc. *'' Glandularia maritima'' (Small) Small *'' Glandularia marrubioides'' (Cham.) Tronc. *''

Glandularia megapotamica ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (Spreng.) Cabrera & G.Dawson *''

Glandularia mendocina ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (Phil.) Covas & Schnack *'' Glandularia microphylla'' (Kunth) Cabrera *'' Glandularia nana'' (Moldenke) Tronc. *'' Glandularia paraguariensis'' (Moldenke) N.O'Leary *''

Glandularia parodii ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' Covas & Schnack *'' Glandularia paulensis'' (Moldenke) A.L.R.Oliveira & Salimena *''

Glandularia peruviana ''Verbena peruviana'' (syn. ''Glandularia peruviana''), the Peruvian mock vervain, is a species of flowering plant in the family Verbenaceae. It is native to Bolivia, southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, but not Peru, and ...

'' (L.) Small – Peruvian mock vervain *''

Glandularia phlogiflora ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (Cham.) Schnack & Covas *'' Glandularia platensis'' (Spreng.) Schnack & Covas *'' Glandularia polyantha'' Umber *'' Glandularia porrigens'' (Phil.) J.M.Watson & A.E.Hoffm. *'' Glandularia pulchra'' (Moldenke) Botta *'' Glandularia pumila'' (Rydb.) Umber *'' Glandularia quadrangulata'' (A.Heller) Umber *'' Glandularia racemosa'' (Eggert) Umber *''

Glandularia radicans ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' Schnack & Covas *'' Glandularia rectiloba'' (Moldenke) P.Peralta & V.Thode *'' Glandularia reichei'' (Acevedo) L.E.Navas *''

Glandularia santiaguensis ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' Covas & Schnack *'' Glandularia scrobiculata'' (Griseb.) Tronc. *'' Glandularia selloi'' (Spreng.) Tronc. *'' Glandularia sessilis'' (Cham.) Tronc. *'' Glandularia stellarioides'' (Cham.) Schnack & Covas *'' Glandularia subincana'' Tronc. *''

Glandularia sulphurea ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (D.Don) Schnack & Covas *'' Glandularia tampensis'' (Nash) Small *'' Glandularia tecticaulis'' (Tronc.) N.O'Leary *'' Glandularia tenera'' (Spreng.) Cabrera *''

Glandularia tessmannii ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

'' (Moldenke) P.Peralta & V.Thode *'' Glandularia teucriifolia'' (M.Martens & Galeotti) Umber *'' Glandularia thymoides'' (Cham.) N.O'Leary *'' Glandularia tomophylla'' (Briq.) P.Peralta *'' Glandularia tristachya'' (Tronc. & Burkart) Schnack & Covas *'' Glandularia tumidula'' (L.M.Perry) Umber *'' Glandularia turneri'' G.L.Nesom *'' Glandularia tweedieana'' (Niven ''ex'' Hook.) P.Peralta *'' Glandularia venturii'' (Moldenke) Botta *''

Glandularia verecunda ''Glandularia'', common name mock vervain or mock verbena, is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. They are native to the Americas. Description These plants, like their relatives the vervains ...

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References

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