Whitestem hedgenettle facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Whitestem hedgenettle |
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Stachys
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albens
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Stachys albens, also known as whitestem hedgenettle or white hedgenettle, is a mint 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.
Distribution
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.
See also
In Spanish: Stachys albens para niños
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