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
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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
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