Stachys macrantha
Lamiaceae
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Habitat:
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sunny places
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Flowering:
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late spring and early summer
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Size:
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40
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40
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Soil:
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any good garden soil
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Price
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£7.00
(2 litre pot)
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Order code:
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SM2-2
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The various kinds of betony all have angular upright stems and soft, hairy leaves, usually aromatic. The labiate flowers are clustered along the upper parts of the stems, often small in themselves, but together making attractive splashes of colour, which is usually in the pink-purple range.
Stachys macrantha is known as the 'big betony'. It makes clumps of hairy leaves, with upright stems carrying the whorls of flowers, tubular and coloured pale purple.
Other related plants:
Herbaceous perennial with dark green leaves and white flowers.
Lamb's lugs with yellow-grey foliage and spikes of dark pink, woolly flowers.
New variety of 'Lamb's lugs', much more compact but just as silky silver,
Large, purple-violet flowers above mats of fresh-green, crinkled foliage.
White-flowered form of the alpine betony; hairy leaf rosettes.
Dense spikes of reddish-purple or pink flowers.