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Stachys albens
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.
Stachys albens occurs between 0 (sea level) and 9000 feet, in wet, swampy to seepy places in the following plant communities:
Artichoke betony · Bugle hedgenettle · Stachys aleurites · Annual hedgenettle · Stachys antalyensis · Cobwebbed Woundwort · Staggerweed · Golden Stachys · Strandveld stachys · Stachys bombycina · California hedgenettle · Stachys buttleri
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stachys albens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
