White Vervain

(Verbena urticifolia)

 

   

 

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Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

White Vervain (Verbena urticifolia L.)

Identification: Flowers small, white, with a tubular corolla and 5 free petal lobes. Flowers arranged on a series of highly branched flower spike, one from the apex of the plant, and others arising from the leaf axils. Only a few flowers at open at any one time. Leaves and stem hairy. Leaves in opposite pairs, elongate-ovate, with a pointed apex and a coarsely toothed outer margin. Plant 3 to 5 feet in height.

Distribution: Found throughout eastern North America.

Habitat: White Vervain is found along the edges of woods, in thickets, and old fields.

Flowering period: June to September.

Similar Species: White Vervain is easily separated from other Verbena species by its white flowers

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