Species within a genus

Genus: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
STACHYS (G)
Woundwort, Teebos (Le)
Family: LAMIACEAE
stachys, = ear of corn.
(in modern botany, ‘spike’)
(a spike)

(LS, BL, Le)
Stachys aethiopica (G, La)
Cape Catnip (Wf) Katbossie, Katpisbossie, White Salvia, Wild Sage (PS)
Location: (F, K, P)
Aithiops, (αίθώ, όψ), = an Ethiop, negro, properly Burnt-face;
Aethiopia, = a country in Africa, on both sides of the equator. Its limits cannot be accurately defined;
(usually South Africa, in classical use Africa south of Libya and Egypt, hence Abyssinia)
-icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’.
(LS, ld, BL)
Stachys arvensis (La)

Location: (K, P)
arva, = an arable field, cornfield;
arvus, arvum, = that has been ploughed, but not yet sown, ploughed, arable; an arable field, cultivated land, a field, ploughed land, glebe;
-ensis, = indicates country or place of growth or origin or else habitat.
(growing in fields or cultivated land)
(Alien)
(ld, BL, Cw)
Stachys thunbergii

Location: (K)
For Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828).**
(Ch)