Stachys stricta

Sonoma hedge nettle

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Sonoma hedge nettle is a California native perennial found in central Coast Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, and adjacent Great Valley in moist, open or shady places at elevations below 600 meters. Flowering from June to October, this plant produces white flowers in clusters of 8 to 12 blooms with an oblique corolla and delicate ring of hairs. Growing with erect, branched stems 30 to 80 centimeters tall and covered in soft to stiff hairs, it has a glandular texture throughout. Its leaves are oblong to widely lanceolate, 5 to 15 centimeters long with a heart-shaped or nearly truncate base, featuring small glands especially on the undersides and gently crenate edges. The flowers have a soft-hairy calyx tube 4 to 5 millimeters long, with an upper lip less than 2 millimeters and a lower lip 3.5 to 7 millimeters long.

Habitat: Moist, open or shady places

Bloom period: Jun-Oct

Elevation: < 600 m

Bioregions: c&amps NCoRI, n&ampc SNF, adjacent GV.

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