Flowers:
Purple (Plant usually covered with violet-purple flower panicles that have a slight fragrance; May)
Foliage:
Green (Green summer foliage; poor fall color)
Fruit:
Brown (Not ornamentally important)
Soil:
Widely adapted to soils; does well on alkaline soils (pH 6.5-8.0)
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are simple, opposite, 0.75-1.75" long and not as wide, slightly undulating, elliptic-ovate to ellipticobovate, glabrous and glossy above but pubescent on the veins below. Two parallel veins run from the base nearly to the apex.
