Verbesina

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Verbesina in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Verbesina (probably a meaningless alteration of Verbena). Compositae. Crownbeard. Annual or perennial herbs, or some tropical species shrubby. Leaves alternate or opposite, often decurrent: heads corymbose or solitary, of yellow or white fls.; rays sometimes wanting, pistillate or neutral: achenes flattened or those of the rays 3-sided, their margins winged or not; pappus of 2 (1-3) awns, sometimes with 2 or 3 intermediate scales.—About 50 species, American. About a half dozen hardy perennial verbesinas have slight rank as garden plants, but the competition among yellow-fld. autumn-blooming composites is so great that verbesinas have little chance. They make acceptable wild-garden and back-border subjects. V. Purpusii, T. S. Brandeg. Dwarf: lvs. in a rosette, elliptic, 4-5 in. long: scapes 8-12 in. long, each bearing a solitary fl.-head 1 3/4 - 2 in. across; ray-florets deep golden. Mex.—V. virginica, Linn. (Phaethusa virginica, Brit.). Virginia Crownbeard. A hairy-stemmed perennial with winged branches and white corymbose-paniculate heads has been offered. It is a wild-garden subject that would be good to naturalize. E. N. Amer. Gt.. 47, p. 132. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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