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Colorado, United States
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close up image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing several bloom spikes with flowers opening at the bottom and blooming their way up the spikes, detailing several flowers at full open.
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Portage, Michigan, United States
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close up image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a flower head just at the end of bloom, before the seeds have ripened.
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Verbena hastata is a short-lived, native perennial forb which, like many moisture loving plants of open wet meadows and pond/creek edges, gets off to a very quick start (as in "sprint") and flowers in its first year of growth. While fully mature plants are typically five to six feet tall, at the time this picture was taken this plant was a mere 38 cm tall (and it started to flower when it was less than 30 cm tall) and it germinated from seed only a few months ago. This appears to be a pioneer species based on other seeding experiments.July 31, 2014, Salt Lake County, Utah, approx, 4,360 ft. with Typha latifolia (left).
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Apple Grove, West Virginia, United States
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Vermont, Wisconsin, United States
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Village of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, United States
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close up image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - shwoing a side view of a flower head in full bloom, about halfway through the blooming cycle.
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Colorado, United States
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close up image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a top down view of the same flower head, about halfway through the blooming cycle.
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field image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - 2010 was a record weather year; the Chicago area had the wettest spring and warmest summer in 110 years of recorded weather statistics. This species loves water and warmth, so more specimens grew and bloomed 2010 than in any of the 45 years previous.
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Vermont, Wisconsin, United States
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close up image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a side view of the slightly four-sided stem and leaf detail.
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close up image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing a flower head just at the start of bloom.
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close up image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - a flower head after bloom has stopped showing the seeds maturing, but not yet ready for dispersal.
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close up image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing and stem and leaf detail.
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close up image of Verbena hastata BLUE VERVAIN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - this photograph was taken in 2009; the flower head is thinner due to slightly less water and warmth.
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