| Scientific Name: | Verbena bonariensis |
| Common Name: | purpletop verbena |
| Family Name: | Verbenaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Perennial border, Summer interest, Tall background |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Oblanceolate, Oblong, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Purple, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Nut, Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems wiry stiff, 4-angled; leaves opposite, sessile, oblong-oblanceolate, up to 15cm long x 3.5cm wide, margins serrate; flowers mauve-purple in cymose clusters at tips of a long, branching peduncle. | |