Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolianative · Central Texas
Smooth Hedgenettle is a wildflower native to Central Texas that grows 13 ft tall. It wants full sun or part shade and high water, and handles clay soil. Blooms purple in late spring.
Wet ground only. Usually found in wetlands and creek bottoms. It wants reliably moist ground and struggles in a dry upland bed.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- High
- Height
- About 13 ft
- Bloom
- Late Spring · purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay
Where it grows
1 occurrence record in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.