Northeast Pollinator Plants
Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain)
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We ship only to the New England and New York states. If you live near Fairfax, VT, consider buying at our farm, River Berry Farm.
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Plants are delivered in a biodegradable wood fiber pot, 2.75" diameter by 3.5" deep.
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Common Name: Blue Vervain
Attracts: Bees, Butterflies
Uses: Naturalizing, Rain Gardens
Light: Full Sun
Hardiness Zone: 3 to 8 USDA Zone Map
Soils: Moist to Wet
Flower Time: July to September
Flower Color: Blue-Purple
Height: 2'-6'
Notes: A common clump-forming, short-lived, wet 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 affinis (Rusty-Patched Bumble bee) presumed extinct!
Bombus ashtoni (Ashton's Cuckoo Bumble bee) presumed extinct!
Bombus citrinus (Lemon Cuckoo Bumble bee)
Bombus fervidus (Golden Northern Bumble bee)
Bombus terricola (Yellow-Banded Bumble bee)
Bombus rufocinctus (Red-Belted Bumble bee)
Lasioglossum nelumbonis (Lotus Sweat bee)
Megachile rugifrons (Rugose-Fronted Resin bee)
Triepeolus simplex (Simple Longhorn-Cuckoo bee)
Native to all of the US Biota of North America Program (BONAP) – North American Plant Atlas (NAPA).