Glandularia bipinnatifida

Common name: Dakota Vervain, Purple prairie Verbena
Family: Verbenaceae
Size: Up to 30 cm tall
Description:  Low, trailing, or creeping, hairy, matlike colonies
Habitat:  Various soils, love sun

Flower:

• 1 cm across
• 5 petals, purple or lavender to rose-pink
• United basally
• Flowers numerous in rounded, terminal clusters

Stem and leaves:

• Leaves 2-6.3 cm long
• Opposite, stalked
• Blade, lobed into numerous narrow segments
• Stem, squared, branching from base