Verbena lasiostachys

Common verbena

Family: Verbenaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Common verbena is a California native perennial found in coastal and inland regions in grasslands, chaparral, and disturbed areas at elevations up to 1,000 meters. Flowering from April to October, this plant produces blue to purple flowers in slender, elongated spikes 7 to 25 centimeters long. Growing with 1 to 5 ascending to erect stems 35 to 80 centimeters tall, covered in short, spreading hairs, it forms a robust clump. Its leaves are approximately ovate, 4 to 10 centimeters long, coarsely toothed and deeply lobed near the base, with a soft, somewhat rough texture. The flower bracts are small, measuring 3 to 4.5 millimeters, with a delicate blue to purple corolla.

California counties: Mendocino, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Luis Obispo, San Bernardino, Kern, San Diego, Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, Butte, Alameda, Marin, El Dorado, Lake, Monterey, Fresno, Tulare, Alpine, Colusa, Shasta, Santa Clara, Mariposa, Sacramento, Tehama, Humboldt, Trinity, Santa Cruz, Tuolumne, Contra Costa, Siskiyou, Amador, Del Norte, Sutter, Nevada, Yolo, Merced, Sonoma, Stanislaus, San Benito, Madera, Solano

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.