Meteor Shower purple top
Verbena bonariensis 'Meteor Shower'
Proven Winners Award Winner; MBG Plant of Merit 2004
USDA zones7 to 11
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles dry to moist soil
Size1 to 3 feet tall12 inches wide
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Erect
- Bloom season
- Summer, autumn
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'Meteor Shower' purple top (Verbena bonariensis 'Meteor Shower') is an annual for borders, containers, cut flowers, and pollinator gardens. It shrugs off cool spells and light frost, though a hard freeze will damage it. This plant likes full or part sun and dry to moist soil of most types. Small violet-lilac flowers open on slender stems from summer into fall, and hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies visit them in numbers. It is not a favorite of deer or rabbits, though hungry ones will eat almost anything. Unlike the species, it does not self-seed.
Pairs well with Magnus coneflower, Prairie dropseed, and Lemon Queen sunflower.