Common Name
Purple porterweed
Family
VERBENACEAE
Select
Bushes
Spanish Name
Rabo de gato, Rabo de zorro
- Grows well in full sun exposure
- Perennial pioneer shrub in forest succession
- Potential ornamental plant for outdoor gardens and ecological restoration.
- Pollinated by butterflies and dispersed by birds and bats.
- It has properties as antacid, analgesic, anti inflammatory, hypotensive, antihelminthic , diuretic, laxative, lactagogue, purgative, sedative, spasmogenic, vasodilator, vulnerary, and vermifuge. PROPAGATION: Cuttings