Stachys bullataBenth.

California Hedge Nettle

WFO wfo-0000313805 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Stachys bullata, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-15 / obs. 172525266
Stachys bullata, photographed by Leah Gardner
fig. b Leah Gardner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201411935
Stachys bullata, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. c Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167676461
Stachys bullata, photographed by George Williams
fig. d George Williams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128543818
Stachys bullata, photographed by George Williams
fig. e George Williams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72541652
Stachys bullata, photographed by Karen Kincy
fig. f Karen Kincy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65052587
Stachys bullata, photographed by Karen and Mike
fig. g Karen and Mike, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49743901
Stachys bullata, photographed by Kylie Etter
fig. h Kylie Etter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128230733

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Flowering n = 990 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 990 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 2 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.

  • Stachys acuminata Greene
  • Stachys californica Benth.

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.

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