Bracteata: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this species. 

	plants with decumbent stems; NOT [plants with erect stems]
	spikes conspicuously bracteose

Verbenaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family. 

	herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	plants green or with some chlorophyll
	flowers in long or short spikes
	flowers alternate or very crowded; NOT [flowers opposite, not crowded]
	flowers with two floral rings
	petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell
	flowers irregular
	flowers brightly colored; NOT [flowers inconspicuous]
	fruit of 4 nutlets; NOT [fruit a many-seeded capsule]; NOT [fruit an achene]