- Bloom Time: June – Sept.
- Bloom Color: Dark blue
- Height: 2 – 3 feet
- Sun: Full
- Soil: Medium to dry
Verbena stricta
Caterpillar food for
Verbena Groundling (Crambodes talidiformis), Fine-Lined Sallow (Catabena lineolata), Turtlehead Borer (Papaipema nepheleptena), Spotted Phosphila (Phosphila miselioides), Common Looper Moth )Autographa precationis
Butterfly food for
Peck’s Skipper (Polites peckius), Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus), Silver Spotted Skipper Butterfly (Epargyreus clarus), Eastern Tailed Blue Butterfly (Everes comyntas), Common Wood Nymph Butterfly (Cercyonis pegala), Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae)
Attracts these pollinators
Long-Horned Bee (Melissodes sp.), Leafcutter Bee (Megachile sp.), Green Sweat Bee (Agapostemon sp.), Cuckoo Bee (Triepeolus sp.), Cuckoo Bee (Coelioxys sp.), Bumble Bee (Bombus sp.),
Photo credit: By Chris Light – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84593087