220 — Number of the plant

at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7

Classification

► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

► Subclass Asteridae

► Order Lamiales

► Family Verbenaceae - Verbena family

► Genus Verbena

Synonyms

≡ Glandularia Xhybrida (basinom) (hort. ex Groenl. & Rumpler) G. L. Nesom & Pruski

Verbena hybrida

Verbena Xhybrida

Common names

Common garden verbena (English)

Florist's verbena (English)

Garden verbena (English)

Verbena (English)

Verbena St. Paul pink (English)

Verveine (French)

 

Вербена гибридная (Russian)

 

Barbena (India (Hindi))

Description

Small salverform flowers with irregular rounded lobes, in many colours and often with a contrasting, usually white centre; borne in flat-topped terminal spikes. A creeping matlike perennial often grown as an annual; the sagittate pubescent leaves have crenate margins.