Wild Flowering Plants
| Verbenaceae family Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Richard) Vahl, Enum. Pl. 1: 208. 1804 “cajanensis.” Bas.: Verbena cayennensis Richard (1792). Syn.: Stachytarpheta urticifolia Sims (1816). Vèvenn latjé wat Indigenous rare herb of semi-open and open dry and moist areas. Antigua, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Barbados, Greater Antilles, Mesoamerica, South America. Flowers white/pale purple. Other Stachytarpheta species have blue-purple or pure white flowers. Local medicinal uses |
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