Family: Verbenaceae
Scientific Name: Verbena stricta
Common Name: Hoary Vervain
Description | A native wild flower that is suitable for the perennial garden. |
Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
Hardiness Zone | (3)4-7(9) |
Sunlight | full |
Moisture | average to moderately dry, drought tolerant |
Soil & Site | average, well drained |
Flowers | blue-purple, borne on densely packed panicles, blooms only a few at a time from bottom to top |
Leaves | simple, opposite, ovate, sessile to very short petioles, gray-green, serrate and hirsute to villous |
Dimensions | up to 3 feet tall depending on growing conditions |
Propagation | seeds, cuttings |
Native Site | North American Prairies |
Notes & Reference | #07- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Lawrence Newcomb). #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz) |
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