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VERBENA FAMILY (VERBENACEAE)
Bird food Beautyberry fruit: bobwhites, brown thrashers, bulbuls, cardinals, catbirds, mockingbirds, purple finches, robins, towhees, woodpeckers, others Blue porterweed: cardinals, sparrows Golden dewdrop fruit: many birds Lantana fruit: bulbuls Butterfly larval food: Buckeye, Tropical Buckeye Phyla: Phaon Crescent Butterfly nectar food Black mangrove: Lyside Sulphur Golden dewdrop: many butterflies Lantana: Cloudless Sulphur, Gulf Fritillary, Julia, Large Orange Sulphur, Martial Scrub-Hairstreak, Polydamas Swallowtail, White M Hairstreak, Zebra Longwing Phyla: Cassius Blue, Phaon Crescent, Queen Verbena: many butterflies Wildlife food Beautyberry fruit: armadillos, raccoons, white-tailed deer Wildlife shelter Golden dewdrop: good cover and nesting for birds

name	area	flower & fruit	season	other

Black mangrove Avicennia germinans	NCS	white	Su	s/t
Beautyberry Callicarpa americana	NCS	many	SpSuF	s
Golden dewdrop Duranta repens	CS	lilac yellow	SpSuFW SpSuFW	s/t, th
Pineland lantana Lantana depressa	NCS	yellow	SpSuFW	p
White lantana Lantana involucrata	NCS	white-purple	SpSuFW	s
Tall matchhead Phyla lanceolata	N	many	SuF	p
Matchhead Phyla nodiflora	NCS	white-purple	SpSuF	p
Blue porterweed Stachytarpheta jamaicensis	CS	purple	SpSuFW	p
Purple top Verbena bonariensis	NCS	purple	SpSuF	p
Tampa vervain Verbena tampensis	NCS	lavender	SpSuF	p

Codes:

N=north
C=central
S=south

Sp=spring
Su=summer
F=fall
W=winter

a=annual
b=biennial
p=perennial
s=shrub
t=tree
v=vine

i=invasive

ta=toxic to animals
th=toxic to humans

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