English > Stachys: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia. |
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Synonym | genus Stachys |
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Member of | Labiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family | A large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint |
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Members | hedge nettle, dead nettle, Stachys sylvatica | foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome |
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hedge nettle, Stachys palustris | perennial herb with an odorless rhizome widespread in moist places in northern hemisphere |
Broader | asterid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
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Spanish | genus stachys, stachys |
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Catalan | genus stachys, stachys, Stachys |
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