Common name:
Betony
Family:
Scientific name:
Stachys officinalis
Main flower color:
Range:
England and Wales
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Heaths, open woodland, grassland, hedgerows, on all soil types
Flowers:
The inflorescence is a compact, terminal cluster, subtended by a pair of leaf-like-bracts but otherwise well above the leaves, though sometimes with a smaller whorl of bracts a little way below. Flowers have a two-lipped corolla, 18 mm long, uniformly pink in colour (occasionally pure white), and a hairy calyx about half as long, lined by five bristle-tipped lobes
Leaves:
Oblong, sparsely hairy, up to 7 cm long, blunt-tipped and lined by coarse teeth. In a basal rosette (long-stalked) and a few widely-separated opposite pairs along the stem (mostly sessile)
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
