Verbena Seeds - Blue Vervain

BOTANICAL NAME

Verbena hastata

LIFE CYCLE

• Perennial

LIGHT REQUIREMENT

• Full Sun
• Partial Shade

GROWTH HABIT

• Clumping
• Upright

PLANT HEIGHT

• 24 to 72 inches

COLOR

• Purple

Blue Vervain is a beautiful native perennial for moist meadows, streambanks, floodplains, and other damp garden spaces where pollinators are welcome. Its slender spikes of blue-lavender flowers bloom from the bottom of each spike upward, creating a graceful, airy display that supports native bees, bumblebees, and butterflies.

• Excellent for pollinator gardens and wetland restoration plantings
• Spikes of blossoms create a candelabra-like appearance
• Tall, upright habit adds vertical texture to plantings

PLANTING SEASON

• Spring
• Fall

SOWING METHOD

• Direct Sow
• Start Indoors

PLANTING DEPTH

• 1/8 inch

WATER NEEDS

• Average
• High

PLANT SPACING

• 18 to 24 inches

HARDINESS ZONES

• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8

SEED PREP

• Requires Light
• Cold Moist Stratification