UNSPSC 10161579: Lemon verbena plant

A plant belonging to the Verbenaceae family. It is a woody shrub that can grow between 1.50 and 2.50 meters high and is characterized by its lemon-like scent. It is native to South America, where it grows wild. Common names: Cidron, Maria Luisa, Lemon Verbena, Verbena de las Indias, Luisa.

UNSPSC 10161579 Lemon verbena plant is a Commodity code for plant material that state and local governments source primarily through landscape and grounds maintenance contracts rather than as a standalone procurement. The recent solicitations under this code reveal a disconnect between the code's nominal scope and actual buying patterns — state and local bodies are posting landscape construction, grounds mowing, and irrigation installation work that may include plant material as part of a broader service delivery, not purchasing lemon verbena or other specific herbaceous plants as discrete line items. Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, for example, issued an ITB for landscape and irrigation installation, maintenance, and repair across facilities, while the City of Arlington, Texas solicited annual grounds mowing and maintenance of city-owned properties, and Pasco County requested bids for median landscape and irrigation construction along 9 miles of Little Road. These issuing bodies represent county school districts, municipalities, and county governments — the typical mix of state and local jurisdictions — but the code shows little evidence of intentional procurement specifically for lemon verbena as a plant species. The Philadelphia micro purchase for holiday wreaths and the DeKalb County tennis center IT and low-voltage infrastructure reconstruction do not align with the code's horticultural scope at all, suggesting tagging inconsistency across the dataset.

Florida and Texas dominate the recent activity, with Hillsborough County Public Schools (ITB 26246ITBMST, response due August 5, 2026), the City of Arlington (proposal due October 1, 2026 for annual grounds maintenance), and Pasco County (IFB IFBKM27004, bids due October 6, 2026 for median landscape construction) as the primary buyers. The code produces no clear signal of sustained or intentional demand for lemon verbena specifically; the landscape and grounds work being solicited is generalized and does not identify individual plant species or herbaceous materials in the available summaries. Firms pursuing plant-material procurement under this code should expect limited, sporadic, and indirect opportunities embedded within larger landscape service contracts rather than direct purchases of nursery stock or specialty plants.