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Stachys bombycina

Stachys bombycina
Photo: Meteorquake, CC BY 4.0

Stachys bombycina is a woolly-stemmed, perennial subshrub from the mint family, native to the coast of southwest Turkey. It is a rare, vulnerable wild species rather than a common garden plant, so care advice is based on its dry, rocky, Mediterranean habitat.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or limestone-based mix with low fertility.
Temperature
15–30 °C; tolerates mild winters but protect below about 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Türkiye
Climate
temperate

About

Stachys bombycina is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae endemic to the SW coastal regions of Turkey. It was first published in 1853.

Other Stachys plants

Artichoke betony · Bugle hedgenettle · Whitestem hedgenettle · Stachys aleurites · Annual hedgenettle · Stachys antalyensis · Cobwebbed Woundwort · Staggerweed · Golden Stachys · Strandveld stachys · California hedgenettle · Stachys buttleri

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stachys bombycina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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.

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