Stachys lavandulifoliaVahl

WFO wfo-0000314187 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Stachys lavandulifolia, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. a Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2016-06-05 / obs. 65074386
Stachys lavandulifolia, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. b Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 108602489
Stachys lavandulifolia, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. c Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 108602500
Stachys lavandulifolia, photographed by Lightning Star Sky / Skyler Noah Wall
fig. d Lightning Star Sky / Skyler Noah Wall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196201652
Stachys lavandulifolia, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. e Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 13615102
Stachys lavandulifolia, photographed by Lightning Star Sky / Skyler Noah Wall
fig. f Lightning Star Sky / Skyler Noah Wall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196201637
Stachys lavandulifolia, photographed by Lightning Star Sky / Skyler Noah Wall
fig. g Lightning Star Sky / Skyler Noah Wall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196201621

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Stachys lavandulifolia is native: Iran, Iraq, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan IranIraqTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistan
Native distribution of Stachys lavandulifolia, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM

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.

Also published as 8 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.

  • Sideritis calycantha M.Bieb.
  • Stachys boissieri Kapeller
  • Stachys calycantha M.Bieb.
  • Stachys lavandulifolia var. glabrescens R.Bhattacharjee & Hub.-Mor.
  • Stachys tomentosa Bunge
  • Stachys zuvandica Rzazade
  • Zietenia lavandulifolia (Vahl) Link
  • Zietenia orientalis Gled.

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. 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.