- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
- ›Mint Family
- ›Lamioideae
- ›Stachydeae
- ›Stachys
whitestem hedgenettle
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.
From the article Stachys albens on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
Stachys albens occurs between 0 (sea level) and 9000 feet, in wet, swampy to seepy places in the following plant communities:
Foothill oak woodland. Coastal sage scrub. Yellow pine forest. Red fir forest. Lodgepole pine forest. California mixed evergreen forest. Wetland-riparian. Pinyon-juniper woodland - Mojave and Colorado Deserts.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Stachys albens in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 58192.