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8. Stachys rigida Nutt. Rigid Hedge Nettle. Fig. 4396. 



Stachys rigida Nutt. ex Benth. in A. DC. Prod. 12: 472. 1848. S. bullata of authors, not Benth. 



Stachys hracteata Greene, Pittonia 3: 342. 1898. 



Stachys vestita Howell, Fl. N.W. Amer. 558. 1901. 



Stachys ajugoides var. rigida Jepson & Hoover, in Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3 : 426. 1943. 



Perennial with creeping rootstocks, the stems erect or somewhat decumbent, simple or 

 branched above, 3-12 dm. high, more or less densely villous-hirsute with spreading or slightly 

 reflexed hairs. Leaves oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, rounded or subcordate at base, acute 

 or acutish at apex, crenate-serrate 2.5-10 cm. long, softly appressed-pubescent on both surfaces; 

 lower petioles mostly 2.5^ cm. long, gradually shorter above; spikes becoming interrupted in 

 age, often 10-20 cm. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, usually well-exceeding the calyx, with 1-3 

 flowers in each axil ; calyx campanulate, the teeth narrowly deltoid, about equaling the tube, 

 mucronulate, densely villous-hirsute; corolla 12-16 mm. long, rose-purple or veined with purple, 

 longer than the calyx ; upper lip 3-4 mm., the lower 5-6 mm. long ; tube usually exceeding the 

 calyx by 2-3 mm.; stamens a little shorter than the upper lip and included; filaments densely 

 hairy at the middle. 



Mostly in low ground, either in the open or in the shade; mainly Transition Zones; Columbia River south- 

 ward on both sides of the Cascades and the Willamette Valley, Oregon, to Lassen and Butte Counties in the 

 Sierra Nevada, and Lake County in the Coast Ranges, California. Type locality: on the Columbia River. Col- 

 lected by Nuttall. July-Aug. 



Stachys rigida subsp. quercetorum (Heller) Epling, Rep. Spec. Nov. Beihefte 80: 59. 1934. iStachys 











4393 



4390. Stachys bullata 



4391. Stachys Chamissonis 



4394 



4392. Stachys ciliata 



4393. Stachys Emersonii 



4395 



4394. Stachys palustris 



4395. Stachys stricta 



