• Family name: Verbenaceae

• Host plant for: none

• General description: Upright, branching wood shrub with rough, opposite leaves and terminal clusters of small cream-white flowers. Easy to cultivate. Requires full sun and well-drained soils. Drought tolerant. Excellent long-blooming subtropical shrub that can be pruned to dense, compact form. Flowers attract butterflies and other pollinators.

• Type: Woody shrub

• Flower: Terminal clusters of small cream-white flowers
• Bloom time: Spring through fall
• Soil type: Dry, well-drained, sandy or limestone soils
• Maximum height: 5 feet

• Candidate for home gardens: Easy to cultivate. Long flowering period.
• Availability in nursery: Specialty and native plant nurseries.
• Frenquency in the wild: Common
• Habitat: coastal uplands, ruderal
  

• Range in Florida

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