Verbena bracteata - photos and description
Saskatchewan's Wildflowers
Annual plant with a prostrate, much branched growth habit, plants can form a mat of foliage. Stems are 4 sided and quite hairy. Leaves are opposite, 3 lobed and serrate, to 4 cm long and 2 cm wide, generally spatulate in shape. Flowers are pale violet to pink, small 2-3 mm in diameter, described as tubular in profile by Budd's Flora. Flowers mostly terminal in a long spike, having conspicuous linear-lanceolate bracts. Plants are just about finished flowering when I photographed them.
I measured the plants growing to 30 cm wide.
Habitat is roadsides and disturbed places on lighter soils.
Took the above photos August 9th on a edge of a cropped field, near Boharm, about 80 km west of our home in Regina, SK.
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