Common Name: blue vervain, common vervainScientific Name: Verbena hastata L.Family Name: Verbenaceae - Verbena FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cyclenative perennial, reproducing by seed and short rhizomes Stemsupright, square, branching above, coarsely grooved, hairy and often rough Leavesopposite, lanceolate to ovate, often with basal lobe or lobes, petioled, green above and gray-green below, rough above and pubescent below, veins prominent, coarsely toothed margins, small axillary leaves Flowers5-petaled, tubular and slender, blue to bluish-purple sometimes white; multiple terminal spikes, many-flowered and dense, flower often overlapping, narrow, upright, rigid, elongate after flowering