Verbena hastata Very Rare the Gou Tou sour orange

the Gou Tou sour orange stands apart

Shadow at Howell Nursery in Winchester

The name comes from the wood: freshly cut

Deeply cut into slender

Syringa vulgaris

Verbena hastata Very Rare the Gou Tou sour orangeBlue vervain rises in summer as a candelabra of slender, pencil thin spikes, each one lit from the base upward with tiny, five lobed flowers in a saturated purplish blue that few native perennials can match. Verbena hastata is a clump forming perennial of eastern North America, reaching two to four feet in good ground and occasionally stretching to six, on stiff, square, hairy stems that branch toward the top. The lance shaped leaves are sharply