Verbena L.

Plants erect not rooting at nodes Verbena

Leaves shortly petiolate entire to deeply divided. Spikes dense at flowering but often elongating in fruit

Corolla limb 2–5 mm diam.; the tube up to c. 4 mm long. Calyx c. 3 mm long

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Leaves deeply pinnately lobed to pinnatifid, up to 7 cm long; upper ones often entire. Spikes elongating in the fruiting stage; the peduncles often becoming leafy just below the spike. Glandular pubescent also with some simple hairs. Corolla lilac, pink, to deep blue. Erect, annual herb up to 1 m high.

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Leaves coarsely toothed. Peduncles usually naked for some distance below the spike