VERVAIN - Verbena Officinalis

Species: Vervain
Latin name: Verbena Officinalis L.
Other usual name: Herbe aux Sorciers - Herbe de Enchantements - Herbe Sacrée - Herbe du Foie - Herbe Guérit Tout - Herbe du Sang - Herbe à Tous les Maux - Verveine Commune - Herbe des Champs - en. Vervain - Herb of Grace - European Vervain - Simpler's Joy - Holy Herb - Herb of the Croee - de. Gewöhnliches Eisenkraut
Variety: Officinal Verbena
Family: Verbenacées
Origin: Europe, America

Vervain: Hardy perennial plant of easy culture. The flowers are small purple with five petals in tense spikes, they are visible from June to October. The stem is thin, is drawn up straight, and the leaves are oblong, and deeply cut. Appreciated for its medicinal virtues against digestive diseases, migraines and rheumatisms, taken in form of herb teas. Harvest right before the flowering progressively of your need and suspend the bouquets in a dry and aired place.

Seed sowing: Spring
Collect vervain: Right before flowering
Height: Vervain reaches an average size of 30 to 60 cm
Exposure: Sunny

Sowing instructions: Sowing in pots or trays in a greenhouse cover the seeds 5 mm with potting soil, pack slightly. When the seedlings are rather strong transplant in a sunny place, carefull transplant only if there is no more risk of freezing.

Sowing distance: 20 by 20 cm between seedlings
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 20 to 25 °C
Seed germination: 21 to 30 days
Nutritional value: - Kcal for 100 gr.

Net weight of seeds: 0.5 gr. = +/- 1550 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.