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Betony - Stachys officinalis
Short to tall softly hairy plant with erect stems and persistent basal leaf rosettes. Leaves oblong to oval, coarsely toothed, the uppermost unstalked. Flowers usually bright reddish purple 12 to 18 mm long the whorls forming a dense oblong spike.
Permanent grassland, heaths and woodland edge.
June to October.
Perennial
Fairly frequent over much of Britain, but scarce in most of Scotland and East Anglia.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 172 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Betony
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Lamiales
- Family:
- Lamiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 128
- First record:
- 25/07/2010 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 03/08/2023 (Willis, Jill)
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