{"product_id":"western-vervain-seeds","title":"Western Vervain Seeds (Verbena lasiostachys)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eWestern vervain is a sublimely chaotic kind of plant. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eIt makes itself at home in gnarly conditions…in the dusty fringes of freight terminals and rail yards…within defunct and worn-out horse pastures where no other natives persist…on steep embankments and scoured flood plains. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eWithin these spaces, western vervain grows with wild abandonment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eIt creates abstract forms of multi-stemmed, sprawling, falling, climbing, twisting violet flower spires that open in constant succession over a very long summer bloom season. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eAll along it yields nectar. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eMonarchs, swallowtails, and skippers are regular visitors. But it’s also a larval host for the common buckeye butterfly (\u003cem\u003eJunonia coenia\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eThe bees are there of course, interesting and odd ones: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnthophora urbana, Ceratina tejonensis, Anthidium edwardsii \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAnthidium maculosum, Ashmeadiella aridula astragali, Dianthidium ulkei, Megachile angelarum, Megachile fidelis, Osmia coloradensis \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eOsmia cyanella\u003c\/em\u003e…all species themselves of the odd frontiers between human and non-human spaces. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eYou can establish western vervain in the places it might naturally be found – in hard shallow soils, or sandy riparian zones (where it enjoys the added moisture). It normally shows up from about Portland, Oregon, southward to Baja on both wet and dry sides of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada. Expect it to be about 12-inches tall in hardscrabble conditions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eAnd yet, this is anarchic perennial can also tolerate the awkward comforts of garden life outside of that zone (probably from southern BC, throughout all of California and even parts of Arizona). Offering it rich soils and a little summer water will only make it more lush and flower rich. Expect it to get up to about 4-feet tall when pampered in a garden!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eWestern vervain is wonderfully tolerant of both sand and heavy clay, and can flower continuously for months (no joke!). It mostly loves full sun. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-outline-level: 1;\"\u003e100+ Seeds (0.1 Grams). \u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northwest Meadowscapes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561388118262,"sku":null,"price":6.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1274\/1723\/files\/western-vervain-seeds-verbena-lasiostachys-4155139.jpg?v=1784452751","url":"https:\/\/northwestmeadowscapes.com\/products\/western-vervain-seeds","provider":"Northwest Meadowscapes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}