Plant Details

Accepted name:: Verbena officinalis L. [Verbenaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Verbena officinalis var. africana (R.Fern. & Verdc.) Munir

Verbena officinalis var. officinalis

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bhekpadi	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
bluebird vine	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
common verbena	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
common vervain	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
echtes eisenkraut	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
eisenkraut	Other	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
erva-de-ferro	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
european verbena	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
european verbena herb	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
european vervain	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
faristariun	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
ferraria	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
fēng jǐng cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
herb of the cross	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
herb-of the-cross	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
herba verbenae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
holy herb	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
hors whip	Other	Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
horse whip herb	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
juno s tears	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
juno's tears	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
järnört	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kumatsuzura	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ma bian cao	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ma bian tsao	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
mabiancao	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
mine çiçeği	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
mǎ biān cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
official vervain	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pigeon's-grass	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pigeons-grass	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pigeon’s grass	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
pittamari	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
planta-da-sorte	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ray-al-hamām	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
saal-ul-hamaam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
saung-daw-ku	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
shahpasand	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
shamakai	Other	Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011) Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
shamakay	Other	Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011)
shmaky	Other	Med. Pl. of Tehsil Kabal, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2015)
shomakai	Other	Pl. for Snake and Scorpion Bite in N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015)
simpler's joy	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
simpler's-joy	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tiě mǎ biān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
turkey-grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
verbena	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
verbena commune	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
verbena herb	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
verbena medicinal	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
verbena officinalis	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
verbena officinalis, flos	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
verbenae herba	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
vervain	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
verveine officinale	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
verveine officinelle	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
wild verbena	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
yě jīng jiè	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
zǐ dǐng lóng yá	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
رعي الحمام	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
紫顶龙芽	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
野荆芥	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
铁马鞭	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
风颈草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
馬鞭草	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
马鞭草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
aerial parts	dried aerial parts	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
aerial parts		British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
whole plant		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
aerial part		Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Herb		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Whole plant		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Whole plant		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Roots and Leaves		Pl. for Snake and Scorpion Bite in N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015)
aerial part	dried aerial part	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
whole shoot system		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Leaf		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
Whole plant		Med. Pl. of Tehsil Kabal, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2015)
whole plant		Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011)
whole plant		Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011)
Whole plant		Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
stem, root, aerial parts		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
aerial parts		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
herb		WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
herb		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
aerial parts	dried aerial parts	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
aerial parts	whole or fragmented, dried aerial parts	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
aerial parts	whole or fragmented, dried aerial parts	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007)
aerial parts		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
leaf, stem		Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
flower		U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
flowering aerial parts	Whole or fragmented, dried aerial parts, collected during flowering	European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Verbena officinalis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Verbena officinalis L.	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011) Ethnobot. in W Granada Province, Spain (Benítez et al., 2010) Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Med. Herbs Israel (Said et al., 2002) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Med. Pl. Used by Tibetans in Shangri-La, Yunnan (Liu et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. of Tehsil Kabal, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2015) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Pl. for Snake and Scorpion Bite in N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Verbena officinalis L. subsp. officinalis	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Verbena officinalis Lin.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Verbena officinalis Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Verbena officinalis Linnaeus	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Verbena officinalis Linné	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
Verbena ofﬁcinalis L.	Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008)

The following online resources may contain further information about this plant. Please click on any link to search that resource. You may search using the accepted name alone OR using the accepted name and all of its synonyms simultaneously.

Search using just the accepted name

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images

Google Scholar

Encyclopedia of Life

Search using all scientific names used for this plant:

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images