Stachys palustris L.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Lamiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Stachys palustris L.

• Description

  Species Description - Rhizomatous perennial 3–10 dm, hairy throughout and often glandular; lvs sessile or some short-petioled, the main ones lance-triangular to lance-ovate or elliptic, broadly rounded to truncate-subcordate at base, 3.5–9 × 1–4 cm, crenate; infl a series of usually 6-fld verticils, the lower often subtended by foliage lvs, the upper by progressively reduced bracts; cal 6–9 mm, the narrow lobes nearly as long as the tube; cor purplish, white-maculate, 11–16 mm, the tube abruptly expanded on the lower side at the base of the oblique internal hairy ring, and often with a small, saccate gibbosity. Moist or wet places; circumboreal, in Amer. from Que. to Alas., s. to N.Y., Ill., Mo., and Ariz. June–Aug. (S. ampla; S. arenicola; S. arguta; S. borealis; S. brevidens; S. homotricha; S. pustulosa; S. schweinitzii)

• Common Names

  hedge-nettle