Scientific Name: Stachys byzantina
Common Name: woolly betony, lamb's ears
Family Name: Lamiaceae
Origin: Central / west Asia
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Mounded
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses: Attract butterflies, Container planting, Ground cover, Perennial border, Rock garden, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Tomentose, Elliptic, Oblong, Spatulate, Ciliate, Crenate, Undulate (wavy)
Flowers: Verticillaster, Purple, Pink, Jul-Aug
Fruit: Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, lanceolate to oblong, most blades 5-15cm long x 2-6cm wide, green, pubescence silvery-white, dense, furry and very soft to touch, margin crenate and wavy.