Beautiful spikes of purple flowers provide late-summer beauty to the landscape. These showy perennials of the prairies are drought tolerant and easy to grow in dry to moist, sandy to loamy soils and full to part sun. It self-seeds readily, lacks disease or pest problems, and is deer resistant!
 
Plant Characteristics:
Grows 24-48" tall and 12-18" wide.
 
Prefers full or part sun.
 
Prefers dry, sandy soils and also grows well in average or moist, well-drained, loamy soils. Tolerates drought.
 
Blooms June-August.
 
Wildlife Value:
Host plant for larvae of common buckeye butterfly and verbena and fine-lined sallow moths. Frequent bee visitors include a specialist known as verbena bee and long-horned, short- and long-tongued, leafcutter, bumble, honey, green sweat, and ashton cuckoo bumble bees. Several skippers visit for nectar, including Peck’s, silver spotted, and fiery. Other pollinators include monarchs, common wood nymphs, cabbage whites, great spangled fritillaries, eastern tailed-blues, little yellows, and painted lady butterflies. Bee and syrphid flies visit for nectar. The seeds of all Verbena spp. are eaten by song birds, including cardinals, field sparrows, and juncos. Mammals rarely browse the hairy, bitter foliage.
 
Medicinal, Edible, and Other Uses:
 
Resources:
Johnson's Nursery: https://kb.jniplants.com/hoary-vervain-verbena-stricta#:~:text=Hoary%20Vervain%20is%20a%20vigorously,as%20average%20and%20moist%20conditions
                                                                 
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