Hedge nettle
Stachys sylvatica L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 75 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Lamiaceae
Also called Hedge woundwort, Whitespot
Formerly Stachys canariensis, Stachys foetida, Stachys glaucescens, Stachys trapezuntea
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Europe to C. Siberia and W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from RHS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS pink; Wikipedia purple
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Azerbaijani
- Meşə poruğu, Mərcanotuçiçək poruq
- Bashkir
- Ирен сәскә
- Bulgarian
- горски чистец
- Czech
- čistec lesní
- Welsh
- Briwlys y gwrych
- Danish
- Skov-Galtetand
- German
- Wald-Ziest, Waldziest
- Spanish
- hortiga de zorro, hortiga hedionda, hortiga muerta
- Finnish
- lehtopähkämö
- French
- epiaire des bois, Epiaire des bois, Épiaire des bois
- Scottish Gaelic
- Lus nan Sgor
- Upper Sorbian
- Lěsna přeslička
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Stachys sylvatica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.