This introduced groundcover
is commonly known as
dark blue snakeweed.
Stachytarpheta cayennensis
is described as a "dicot"
in the
Verbenaceae
family.
In the Queensland Nature Conservation Act it is not classified as it is not native to Queensland.
Under the Federal Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act it is not classified.
Has dark blue, purple, or violet flowers (about 5 mm across) that are borne on slender flower spikes (1-3 mm thick). Its stems and leaves are almost or totally hairless (i.e. glabrous), and its leaves have a wrinkled appearance with sharply, and deeply, toothed (i.e. serrated) margins (https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/stachytarpheta_cayennensis.htm).
It has not been recorded in the Wide Bay district in the Queensland Herbarium Census and is not
listed as occurring in the Fraser Coast region in the Atlas of Living Australia.
Reported at 5 Fraser Coast localities: Talegalla Weir, Antigua, Point Vernon, Magnolia, Boompa.
Fraser Coast distribution based on field reports.
AVH
