Perennial
Verbena officinalis
Hgt 30 - 60cm Flowers June to September
Slender spikes of pale lilac hooded flowers. It has a long history of uses with magic and sorcery with the Celtic and Germanic people of Europe. A herb of magical powers which include chastity, a common addition to love mixtures, purification, protection, money, peace and youth. Used in herbal medicine to treat insomnia, nervous exhaustion, asthma, migraine and depression, used in Chinese medicine and regarded as anti-malarial.

Sowing time for wildflowers is all year round with best results sowing either March to early May, or from August to September.