Stachys tenuifolia - SMOOTH HEDGENETTLE
Native wildflower to central and eastern USA and Canada with good ecological value.
3' tall, 1.5' wide, pink or purple flowers show up in June, July and August.
Full sun, half sun, half shade, medium moist to moist soil. This perennial loves moist soil, that doesn't dry out. In ideal condition can form bigger colonies. It occurs naturaly in moist meadows, thickets, flood plains, wetland, swamps or ditches.
Deer and rabbit resistant, black walnut tolerant plant. Attracts pollinators - primarily long-tongued bees (but also short-tongued bees, butterflies and skippers).
Best to let it naturalize on water bodies banks, in lower parts of bigger rain gardens, moist meadows, pollinator garden.
This plant goes well with Asclepias incarnata, Chelone, Eupatorium, Filipendula rubra, Physostegia, Rudbeckia (R. fulgida, R. triloba, R. nitida) or grass Panicum virgatum.
Picture copyright : Fritzflohrreynolds, Commons Wikipedia
Stachys tenuifolia - SMOOTH HEDGENETTLE
Native wildflower to central and eastern USA and Canada with good ecological value.
3' tall, 1.5' wide, pink or purple flowers show up in June, July and August.
Full sun, half sun, half shade, medium moist to moist soil. This perennial loves moist soil, that doesn't dry out. In ideal condition can form bigger colonies. It occurs naturaly in moist meadows, thickets, flood plains, wetland, swamps or ditches.
Deer and rabbit resistant, black walnut tolerant plant. Attracts pollinators - primarily long-tongued bees (but also short-tongued bees, butterflies and skippers).
Best to let it naturalize on water bodies banks, in lower parts of bigger rain gardens, moist meadows, pollinator garden.
This plant goes well with Asclepias incarnata, Chelone, Eupatorium, Filipendula rubra, Physostegia, Rudbeckia (R. fulgida, R. triloba, R. nitida) or grass Panicum virgatum.
Picture copyright : Fritzflohrreynolds, Commons Wikipedia