Accession Data

Stachys byzantina

Common Name: Lamb's Ear

Family: Lamiaceae

Synonym(s): Stachys lanata Jacq.

Country of Origin: Krym, N. Turkey to N. Iran

Description: Lamb's-ear plants are perennial herbs densely covered with gray or silver-white, silky-lanate hairs. They are named lamb's ears because of the leaves curved shape and white, soft, fur-like hair coating. Specific epithet means of classical Byzantium (Istanbul, Turkey).3

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 4-8

Accession #: 199200340

Accession Date: 1992-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2101

Quantity: 2

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Lamiales

Family: Lamiaceae

SubFamily: Lamioideae

Tribe: Stachydeae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 26 February 2015.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 26 February 2015.
  3. Stachys byzantina at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
  4. ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Wednesday, 25 September, 2019.

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Stachys byzantina
Stachys byzantina