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64.) ACANTHACEAE to VERBENACEAE

  • Acanthus mollis L. (Bear's-breach) / General
  • Acanthus spinosus L. (Spiny Bear's-breach) - General - [found in Felton near Bristol Airport in 2025 by I.P. Green. (Nature in Avon 2025, p. 193).]
  • Pinguicula vulgaris L. (Common Butterwort) 1875 Wetland
  • Utricularia vulgaris L. (Greater Bladderwort) - Wetland
  • Verbena officinalis L. (var. officinalis - Kew) (Vervain) / General
  • Verbena rigida Spreng. (Slender Vervain) 1980 General
  • Verbena tenera Spreng. (Kew, EDIT) Glandularia tenera (Spreng.) Cabrera (GBIF) (Latin American Mock Vervain - GBIF) 1932 General

Species to add:

  • Catalpa bignonioides Walter (Indian Bean-tree)
  • Utricularia australis (Bladderwort) - 1 record according to NBN, BSBI - recorded South of the region at Shapwick Moor by Mr. D. Fry (9th Sep, 1902) Brist. Fl.
  • Utricularia intermedia (Intermediate Bladderwort) - Brist. Fl. White recorded it from Clapton Moor in 1894 but it was never confirmed. It could potentially have been U. stygia (Nordic Bladderwort) or U. ochroleuca (Pale Bladderwort)
  • Utricularia minor (Lesser Bladderwort) - 1 record according to NBN and another just South of the region. In the past it was abundant in ditches on Clapton, Weston and Kenn Moor's Brist. Fl.

  • Verbena supina L. (Supine Vervain - GBIF) - [Glos. Fl.]

  • Verbena bonariensis L. (Argentine Vervain) [its hard to imagine this is only a recent addition the British gardens considering its popularity. It escapes everywhere!]

Species added by me:

  • Thunbergia alata (Black-eyed Susan Vine)
  • Verbena officinalis L. var. grandiflora ‘Bampton’ (Vervain 'Bampton')
  • Verbena incompta P.W. Michael (Purpletop Vervain)