Stachytarpheta mutabilis

This verbena relative is heat and humidity tolerant and provides the garden with nearly continuous flowering. The interesting pinkish-salmon colored blooms appear in long terminal snake-like spikes throughout the growing season. False Vervain can reach 8 feet tall in the wild but it only grows to around 3 feed in the garden. One of the best new plants for butterfly gardens, it also attracts hummingbirds. This selection is sometimes listed as the cultivar ‘Coral’.