| Scientific Name: | Verbena x hybrida |
| Common Name: | verbena, hybrid verbena |
| Family Name: | Verbenaceae |
| Origin: | Central America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Open, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded, Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Deltoid, Oblong, Ovate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Spike, White, Violet, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, Jun-Jul-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Nut, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite with short petioles, blades ovate-triangular-oblong, up to 6cm long x 3cm wide, crenate-shallowly lobed; florets with five petals each with 2 lobes, arranged in a dome-shaped cyme. | |