White Rat Tail is a perennial plant that closely related the Blu Rat Tail and also native to America and Caribbean Island. It is exotic plant to Sri Lanka and now naturalized throughout the country like Blue Rat Tail.
See also: Nil Balunaguta - Blue Rat Tail
Rat Tail as a Ornamental Pink Rat Tail
Flowers - White Rat Tail
Rat Tail as a Ornamental Pink Rat Tail
| Common Classification | |
|---|---|
| Common Names | White Porter weed, White Snake weed, False Vervain |
| Scientific Name | Stachytarpheta Albiflora |
| Sinhala Name | Sudu Balu Naguta |
| Scientific Classification | |
| Family | Verbenaceae |
| Genus | Stachytarpheta |
| Species | S. albiflora |
| Synonym | Valerianoides albiflorum, |
| Ecology | |
| Category | Weed-Herb |
| Growth Habit | Small-Shrub |
| Duration | Annual-Perennial |
| Origin | Exotic |
| Status | Invasive- Natural |
| Property | |
| Culinary / Edible | No |
| Use as Herb | No |
| Other Use | n/a |
| Poisoned / Toxin | No |
| Identification | |
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