Botanical name: Stachys palustris    Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Stachys aquatica, Stachys segetum, Stachys maeotica

Marsh Woundwort is a perennial herb with stems usually much branched, 60-110 cm, densely velvet-hairy, nodes and angles sparsely bristly. Flowers are borne in long, interrupted spikes, with 6-flowered whorls. Flowers are purple to red-purple, about 1.3 cm, sparsely finely velvet-hairy outside, finely velvet-hairy on throat; tube about 7 mm; upper lip straight, broadly ovate, about 3 x 2 mm; lower lip spreading, about 6 x 6 mm; middle lobe kidney-shaped, tip rounded; lateral lobes ovate. Sepal-cup is tubular-bell-shaped, about 7 mm, grooved, hairy, glandular finely velvet-hairy,10-veined, teeth triangular-lanceshaped, about 3 mm, tip spiny, reflexed. Flower-stalks are about 1 mm. Fruiting sepal-cup is bell-shaped, prominently pouched. Whorls are close together except for lower ones. Lower floral leaves are nearly stalkless, similar to stem leaves; upper ones long tapering, entire, shorter than whorls. Stem leaves have leaf-stalk 2-3 mm; leaf blade oblong-lanceshaped to ovate-lanceshaped, 3-8 x 1.2-1.5 cm, finely velvet-hairy, base rounded to shallowly heart-shaped, margin sawtoothed-rounded toothed, tip pointed to tapering. Marsh Woundwort is found in Europe to Siberia and West Himalaya Flowering: June-August.

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