Stachys rectaL.

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WFO wfo-0000314473 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Stachys recta, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. a Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203603335
Stachys recta, photographed by Michael Grundner
fig. b Michael Grundner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203424745
Stachys recta, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. c Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201353184
Stachys recta, photographed by David Delon
fig. d David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202783164
Stachys recta, photographed by Michael Knapp
fig. e Michael Knapp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200906939
Stachys recta, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199553449
Stachys recta, photographed by Petra Caltová
fig. g Petra Caltová, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199593447
Stachys recta, photographed by timharris
fig. h timharris, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199723871

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Stachys recta is native: Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine IranNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Stachys recta, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
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 769 in flower of 852 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Stachys recta 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. 769 of 852 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 75 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.

  • Betonica decumbens Moench
  • Betonica hirta L.
  • Betonica recta (L.) Baill.
  • Ortostachys recta (L.) Fourr.
  • Prasium stachys E.H.L.Krause
  • Sideritis maculata Gilib.
  • Stachys baldaccii (K.Malý) Hand.-Mazz. & Janch.
  • Stachys betonica Scop.
  • Stachys bufonia Thuill.
  • Stachys czernjaevii Des.-Shost.
  • Stachys decumbens Rchb.
  • Stachys delphinensis Jord.
  • Stachys doerfleri Hayek
  • Stachys erecta K.Koch
  • Stachys fragilis Vis.
  • Stachys fragilis f. serpentini Fiori
  • Stachys fragilis var. rhodopaea Velen.
  • Stachys glabrata Simonk.
  • Stachys glandulifera Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
  • Stachys hirta (L.) Thell.
  • Stachys karstiana (Borbás) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Stachys krynkensis Kotov
  • Stachys labiosa Bertol.
  • Stachys montenegrina K.Malý

and 51 more.

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.