Stachys arvensis(L.) L.

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WFO wfo-0000313721 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Stachys arvensis, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. a Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203786128
Stachys arvensis, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. b Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200205896
Stachys arvensis, photographed by Sigourney Juneau
fig. c Sigourney Juneau, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188684463
Stachys arvensis, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. d Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188478819
Stachys arvensis, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. e Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176837597
Stachys arvensis, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. f Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176391114
Stachys arvensis, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. g Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171171592
Stachys arvensis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 156950973

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Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Stachys arvensis is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, China Southeast, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Taiwan, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belgium, Corse, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanChina SoutheastEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTaiwanTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelgiumCorseDenmarkFranceGermanyGreeceItalyKritiNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalSiciliaSpainSwedenSwitzerland AzoresCanary Is.Cape VerdeMadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Stachys arvensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Baltic States BLT
Belgium BGM
Corse COR
Denmark DEN
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Taiwan TAI
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 421 in flower of 434 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Stachys arvensis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 421 of 434 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cardiaca arvensis (L.) Lam.
  • Glechoma arvensis L.
  • Glechoma belgica L.
  • Glechoma marrubiastrum Vill.
  • Stachys arvensis f. albiflora H.Lindb.
  • Stachys arvensis var. albiflora Bolzon
  • Stachys arvensis var. bermudiana Millsp.
  • Stachys arvensis var. lamiiformis Domin
  • Stachys arvensis var. typica Domin
  • Stachys brasiliensis Benth.
  • Trixago arvensis (L.) Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Trixago colorata C.Presl
  • Trixago cordifolia Moench
  • Trixago punctata Gilib.
  • Trixella arvensis (L.) Fourr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.