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Verbenaceae- common vervain, common verbena, Echtes Eisenkraut

Annual herb, native to the northern hemisphere, 30-80cm high; stem erect, square, branched at the top; leaves opposite, lower ones petioled; small flowers, pale-pink to pale-lilac; inflorescence a narrow spike.

„A pentacyclic triterpenoid, ursolic acid (1), two iridoid glucosides, verbenalin (2) and hastatoside (3), and a phenylpropanoid glycoside, verbascoside (4), were isolated from Verbena officinalis Linn. (Verbenaceae), a plant listed in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia and the British Herbal Pharmacopoeia…Tender parts of the plant were rich in all of these constituents (0.24–0.34%, w/w) while the roots, which are not official in the Pharmacopoeias, contained a maximum amount (0.32%, w/w) of the bioactive verbascoside (4).“ [Quantitative determination of the major constituents of Verbena officinalis using high performance thin layer chromatography and high pressure liquid chromatography. Mundkinajeddu Deepak, Sukhdev Swami Handa, Phytochemical Analysis, Vol.11 (6), 2000, 351–355]