Stachys pilosa

Prairie woundwort

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Prairie woundwort is a rare (CNPS 2B.3) California native perennial found in the Modoc Plateau in moist places at elevations of 1,200 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces pink flowers with an oblique ring of hairs creating a distinctive corolla 6 to 9 millimeters long. Growing with erect, branched stems 30 to 90 centimeters tall covered in soft, spreading, slightly glandular hairs, it forms interrupted flower clusters of up to 6 blossoms. Its leaves are ovate to elliptic, 3.5 to 9 centimeters long with crenate edges, featuring rounded to slightly heart-shaped bases and acute to obtuse tips. The plant's soft to stiff-hairy calyx creates an intricate floral structure with lobes approximately equal to the tube length.

Habitat: Moist places

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 1200-1500 m

Bioregions: MP

California counties: Modoc, Siskiyou, Sierra, Plumas

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.