Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)

           

         



  































     Blue Vervain is a two to five-foot tall, stout-stemmed native, perennial wildflower with many, pencil-like two to five-inch flower spikes, blue purple in color. It has a square, grooved stem and matched pairs of narrow four to six-inch lance-shaped, toothed leaves.  It grows in moist prairies and damp thickets. (July)