Perennials: Would this plant be a perennial in Maryland ????, 0 by Illoquin

Illoquin wrote:
I need to recant!!! My verbena bloomed, and something is very wrong. It's not the same as what it was last year.

I have a Verbena in the same place as last year, a big healthy plant. This is no seedling from last year's plant, but it is an ugly mutt and not the beautiful flowers I had last year.

To top it off, I forget if it was Imagination or Homestead Purple, either way, the problem is it overwintered, but has hideous little flowers.

Here's the photo.