Blue Vervain
Verbena hastata

Other Common Names: Blue verbena, false or American vervain, Swamp verbena
Bloom period:  June - September
Bloom Color: bluish purple, rarely white

Wildlife Value Score:  2
Seed Availability:  3
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Blue Vervain can be found in moist soils, low prairies, meadows, pond edges, wet ditches, and roadsides. Sparrows and finches consume the seeds. Some native americans boiled the leaves and used the tea as a remedy for stomach aches. Doctors during the American Revolution used blue vervain to induce vomiting and to clear repiratory tracts of mucus