• Family : VERBENACEAE
  (Verbena Or Vervain Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SAGVAN FAMILY (सागवान फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VERBENACEAE
• Basionym : Verbena mutabilis Jacq.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Stachytarpheta mutabilis (Jacq.) Vahl
• Common name : The variable Stachytarphyta, Pink snakeweed
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 100m, in and around lake bunds, tanks and slopes of hills
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Dindigul district
• Native : Tropical America
• World Distribution : Introduced to Old World
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Stachytarpheta mutabilis. Downloaded on 4 June 2025.

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