LABIATAE (MINT FAMILY) 357 
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 palistris, L. 
Other English names: Roughweed, Marsh Woundwort, Clown’s 
Heal, Dead Netile. 
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 p,, 948. Hedge Nettle 
and bearded outside, the unequal (Stachys palustris). xX}. < 
