Verbena stricta (Hoary Verbena)

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Common Name:  Hoary Verbena

Attracts:  Bees, Butterflies

Uses:  Naturalizing

Light:  Full Sun

Hardiness Zone:  4 to 7   USDA Zone Map

Soils:  Dry to Moist

Flower Time:  June to August

Flower Color:  Blue-Purple 

Height:  2'-4'

Notes:  A common clump-forming, short-lived, meadow plant that will self-seeds to form scattered colonies topped with long-blooming pencil thin blue-purple panicles.  Noted as deer-resistant by UVM.

Host plant of VT Bee Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN):
Bombus pensylvanicus (American Bumble bee)
Lasioglossum nelumbonis (Lotus Sweat bee)
Megachile rugifrons (Rugose-Fronted Resin bee)
Triepeolus simplex (Simple Longhorn-Cuckoo bee)

Naturalized in VT, MA, CT, NY, native to parts of Mid-Atlantic, through most of central US:  Biota of North America Program (BONAP) – North American Plant Atlas (NAPA).