BEAUTIFUL 
2 , 1 & 
MAT1UE PLANTS 
FROM THE 
HIGH PLAINS, BADLANDS 
AND BLACK HILLS 
1940 
Verbena bipinnatifida 
This is the flower of clear and brilliant blue 
lilac color that “tourists rave” about, seeing 
it in masses at the roadside in dry, hard soil. 
It is in heavy production from late May until 
steady freezing forces a halt. 
In the garden, foliage and flowers are at 
all times neat. The height does not exceed 8” 
though the lengthening stems spread to 24. 
Nodes of stems that touch the ground strike 
root in late season, and the new crowns thus 
formed pass the winter with their own litter 
or a bit of snow and relatively dry footing, 
while the old, exhausted center is apt to per¬ 
ish. Seedlings, however, from early sowing out 
of doors, start flowering by the end of June. 
CLAUDE A. BARR 
PRAIRIE GEM RANCH 
Smithwick, South Dakota 
