Common Name: prostrate vervain, large bracted vervain, bracted vervainScientific Name: Verbena bracteata LAG. & RODR. syn. Verbena bracteosaFamily Name: Verbenaceae - Verbena FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced summer annual or short-lived perennial, reproducing by seed Stemswide-spreading or procumbent and sprawling, slender, branched near base, mat-forming, somewhat square or 4-sided, white spreading hairs Leavesopposite, lower divided into three lobes, terminal larges than two laterals, lobes further divided into lobes or toothed, upper leaves smaller and lack side lobes, scattered white hairs, petiole very short may appear absent and are winged leaves Flowers5-petaled, tubular and narrow, light blue to light purple, tube center white or greenish-white, large bract below each flower, bract linear to lanceolate with white hairs below and on margins; terminal spikes