NameThatPlant.net: Stachys arenicola

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stachys arenicola FAMILY Lamiaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys pilosa var. arenicola FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A new hedge-nettle (Stachys: Lamiaceae) from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain (Fleming, Nelson, & Townsend; 2011)

Stachys arenicola

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Stachys palustris var. pilosa

COMMON NAME:
Woundwort

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_star5_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stachys arenicola FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys pilosa var. arenicola FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A new hedge-nettle (Stachys: Lamiaceae) from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain (Fleming, Nelson, & Townsend; 2011)
Stachys arenicola

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Stachys palustris var. pilosa

2958

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Marl fens, roadsides, banks of waterfowl impoundments; possibly adventive in part from farther west, but at least some populations native, per Weakley's Flora

Native north of the Carolinas & Georgia

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
Pink/Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?
Schizocarp of mericarps

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

"Invasive exotics share several strong traits: fit well within the environment, grow rapidly, mature to produce flowers and seed at an early age, produce great quantities of seed, effectively disperse their seed (via birds, etc.), rampantly spread vegetatively, have no major pest of disease problems. Horticulturally, some of these characteristics are considered quite desirable. Thus there is the absurd irony of various governmental and environmental groups trying hard to control and eradicate in the wild some of the very same species being sold to gardeners all over the US...." — Margie Hunter, Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee

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