LAJBIATAE (MINT FAMILY) 



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Means of control 



Deep cutting with hoe'or spud before any seed has matured, 

 using dry salt on the shorn surfaces for the purpose of checking 

 new growth. 



HEDGE NETTLE 



Stachys palustris, L. 



Other English names: Roughweed, Marsh Woundwort, Clown's 

 Heal, Dead Nettle. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: June to September. 



Seed-time: August to November. 



Range : Newfoundland to the Northwest Territory, southward to 

 New York, Michigan, and Illinois ; 

 in the Rocky Mountains to New 

 Mexico. Also native to Europe 

 and Asia. 



Habitat: Damp grasslands and bor- 

 ders of streams. 



A coarse weed, the stem one to 

 four feet tall, stout, erect, square, the 

 angles bristling with stiff, downward- 

 pointing hairs. Because of its prickly 

 hairiness and unpleasant taste cattle 

 refuse to eat the plant either green or 

 cured in hay. Leaves thick, oblong 

 to lance-shaped, rounded or heart- 

 shaped at the base, rough-hairy, 

 coarsely saw-toothed, sessile or with 

 very short petioles. Flowers in ter- 

 minal interrupted spikes, in whorls 

 of six to ten with small leafy bracts 

 below; calyx bristly-hairy, its awl- 

 like teeth more than half as long as 

 the tube of the corolla, which is more 

 than a half-inch in length, the lips 

 pink or pale purple, spotted with 

 deeper purple; the upper lip concave FlQ 2 4 8. -Hedge Nettle 

 and bearded outside, the unequal (Stachys palustris). x J. 



