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Stachys albens A.Gray
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United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Isotype for Stachys albens A. Gray
Catalog Number: US 55562
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): L. J. Xantus
Year Collected: 1857
Locality: Fort Tejon and vicinity., California, United States, North America
- Isotype: Gray, A. 1868. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 7: 387.
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure
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Stachys albens, also known as whitestem hedgenettle or white hedgenettle, is a mint endemic to California.[1]S. albens has 5-lobed calyx, which are densely cob-webby and white to pinkish in color.[2]
Distribution[edit]
Stachys albens occurs between 0 (sea level) and 9000 feet, in wet, swampy to seepy [2] places in the following plant communities:[1]
- Foothill oak woodland
- Coastal sage scrub
- Yellow pine forest
- Red fir forest
- Lodgepole pine forest
- California mixed evergreen forest
- Wetland-riparian
- Pinyon-juniper woodland - Mojave and Colorado Deserts
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