Verbena tenuisecta (Verbena pulchella)

Exposure: full sun; hugs ground in sun, more upright in shade
Water: drought tolerant; best with some supplemental (once every few weeks)
Soil: uniform, best with some organic amendment
Propagation: vegetative cuttings, easy; divisions; seed
Maintenance: minimal, weeding

Verbena tenuisecta
Verbena pulchella
Moss verbena
Verbenaceae Family

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Form: low, ground hugging herbaceous ground cover
Seasonality: evergreen; foliage may go reddish in winter
Size: 6-12in high, spread 3-6ft
Leaves: fernlike, almost mossy, finely cut, opposite

highly cut leaf form of
Verbena tenuisecta
Flowers: terminal clusters of tiny compound flowers; many hues of purple, plum, white; strongest bloom in spring, then declining in summer heat, flowering returns with cooler temperatures
Fruit: seed
Stems/Trunks: flat-growing perennial
Range/Origin: South America
Hardiness: to low teens; may die back to main stem but recovers
LANDSCAPE VALUE:

colorful groundcover
good in containers
slopes and banks
CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS:

Exposure: full sun; hugs ground in sun, more upright in shade
Water: drought tolerant; best with some supplemental (once every few weeks)
Soil: uniform, best with some organic amendment
Propagation: vegetative cuttings, easy; divisions; seed
Maintenance: minimal, weeding

NOTES:

also Verbena pulchella
aka Fineleaf verbena

Verbena tenuisecta

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