Stats

Lifespan

Annual or perennial

Size

Small

Diet

Photosynthetic

Biome

Temperate grassland

Range

South America

Movement

Sessile

Breeding

Seeds

Defense

Toxins

Status

Rare

About

This flowering plant grows in sunny garden beds and open meadow patches. Each cluster of blooms tracks the sun across the sky to maximize its daily light intake.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   seed

   A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2. 2.
   sprout

   A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3. 3.
   sapling

   A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4. 4.
   mature

   Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Verbenaceae

Genus

Glandularia