Description: Family: Verbenaceae Common name: Brazilian tea, Eduru vuttareni (Telugu) Distribution: Native of tropical America; Naturalised in India.Common in wet places. 50-80 cm tall herbs. Leaves elliptic obovate, serrate, base acute or decurrent; Flowers 6-8 mm across, violet, in 10-15cm long terminal spikes. In Andhra pradesh the leaves are used as leafy vegitable. Leaf juice is used against scorpian and snake bite. Reference: Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS, Flora of Nellore district By B.Suryanarayana &A.S Rao. Date: 25 July 2010, 20:01. Source: Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.)Vahl.. Author: Lalithamba from India.
Description: English: Photographed at the Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden (Chiang Mai Province, Thailand) in March. Date: 9 March 2011, 21:06:17. Source: http://Gardenology.org. Author: Raffi Kojian. Permission (Reusing this file): See attribution information.
Description: English: Stachytarpheta jamaicensis in Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago. Date: 28 September 2016, 00:17:20. Source: Own work. Author: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.
Description: English: Stachytarpheta jamaicensis in Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago. Date: 28 September 2016, 00:17:17. Source: Own work. Author: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.
