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 Queensland Herbarium Wildlife Online.
Reported at 4 Fraser Coast localities: Antigua, Magnolia, Point Vernon, Talegalla Weir.
Fraser Coast distribution based on unverified field reports.
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