Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain)

grows 2-6 ft. tall

grows in part shade to full sun

prefers medium to wet soils

blooms purple from July-August

natural habitat: wet meadows, wet river bottomlands, stream banks, slough peripheries, fields and waste areas

host plant for the Common Buckeye

deer resistant

companion plants: Echinacea (Coneflowers), Phlox paniculata (Garden Phlox), Helenium (Sneezeweed), Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker)