Verbena lilacina 'De La Mina', Cedros Island Verbena

Clusters of fragrant lavender-purple star-shaped flowers are wonderfully attractive to butterflies and bees!  Blooms heavily late spring through summer and will continue blooming until frost with some supplemental summer watering.   Delicate, dissected light-green foliage forms an attractive, rounded shape.  

Selected in 1996 by Carol Bornstein, then Director of Horticulture at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, in the Canyon de la Mina at the northern end of Cedros Island, an island off the west coast of Baja California.

Mature size: 1-2 ft tall x 2-3 ft wide

Minimum temperature: 25° F