Ocassionally you'll find a white or pink variety. The more delicate-looking split-leaf vitex, V. negundo heterophylla, is just as tough and easy. It's a prolific bloomer with smaller, paler flowers.

Here is a case in point: In the vitex negundo, every compound leaf with its leaflets is compared to a “hand with spread fingers”. Botanists out there would exclaim, “Oh yeah, that is called ...