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Sugarweed said:Here is S Florida this plant is available several places.
What I found out at Butterfly World where I purchased mine is it blooms here year round if you keep it dead headed.
It's my favorite fragrant plant.
I didn't know it was a verbena
Sidney

Hi,

Let me tell you something about Verbena...
Family: Verbenaceae (ver-be-NAY-see-ee)
Genus: Aloysia (al-uh-WIZH-ee-uh)
Species: virgata (vir-GA-tuh)

Aloysia is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. The roughly 35 species of aromatic shrubs it contains are generally known as beebrushes, with the most well-known being lemon verbena (A. citrodora). The genus is named for Maria Luisa of Parma (1751-1819), wife of King Charles IV of Spain