Full sun. A short-lived native perennial blooming throughout the warm season and sometimes in winter. The rounded purple flower clusters and highly divided leaves are distinctive. Verbena is tough and can cover fields and hillsides in spring. In a landscape setting, give it good drainage and a full 8-hour summer sun. Shearing it can prompt a flush of new flowers.
Don’t pamper verbena with too much water, or it will develop powdery mildew.
Plants can be fairly short lived but reseed freely; in a landscape situation they may appear in different locations each year.
A drought-tolerant, sun-loving perennial.
