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Whitestem hedgenettle or white hedgenett
Stachys albens
About
Stachys albens, also known as whitestem hedgenettle or white hedgenettle, is a Stachys endemic to California. S. albens flowers have a 2-lipped, 5-lobed calyx, which is densely cob-webby and white to pinkish in color with purplish veins. The plant is fuzzy all over with opposite, triangular, serrate leaves, a square stem, a layered spike of many small flowers and a minty smell if bruised.
- Family
- Lamiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Stachys albens
- Slug
- stachys-albens
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Stachys
- Species
- albens
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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