Hedge Woundwort - Stachys sylvatica
Medium to tall creeping plant to 1.2 metres with a rather unpleasant smell, stems erect, glandular hairy. Leaves heart shaped, slightly hairy, all stalked. Flowers dull dark purple red, with white markings, 13 to 18 mm long, hairy, the whorls forming an interrupted spike.
Hedgerows banks and ditches.
June to September.
Perennial.
Common throughout most of Britain except for the Scottish Highlands.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 601 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Sapcote
29 May 2014
David Nicholls
Ratby
24 June 2012
David Nicholls
North Kilworth, Station Rd Verge
17 June 2023
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 July 2012
HAPeacock
The Orchards
26 June 2012
Graham Calow
Sapcote
24 June 2013
HAPeacock
City Farm - Sheep Field Path
26 June 2012
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Species profile
- Common names
- Hedge Woundwort
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Lamiales
- Family:
- Lamiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 558
- First record:
- 11/05/1992 (John Mousley;Steve Grover)
- Last record:
- 10/10/2025 (David Nicholls)
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Graham Calow
Springwell Lane, near Whetsone
29 July 2016
Graham Calow
Sapcote
29 May 2014
Graham Calow
Sapcote, land behind Northfield Road
21 June 2021
Alan Semper
Harby footpath
17 June 2013
New this year in disturbed ground
HAPeacock
The Orchards
26 June 2012 Near the 'Wash Pit' Sapcote SP 4849 9364 (taken 14.6.2006).JPG)
Graham Calow
Wash Pit, Sapcote
14 June 2006. Green Lane Sapcote SP 4860 9318 (taken 13.7.2008).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
13 July 2008
Ron.stevens
Broughton Astley
05 June 2011
David Nicholls
Hill Hole Quarry
02 June 2011
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
08 July 2012
David Nicholls
Ratby Disused Railway
09 July 2011
Graham Calow
Sapcote
20 September 2013
HAPeacock
City Farm - Sheep Field Path
26 June 2012
HAPeacock
City Farm - Sheep Field Path
26 June 2012
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
04 July 2012
HAPeacock
Gilroes Spinney
05 July 2012
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
05 July 2012
David Nicholls
Broughton Astley
04 July 2013
Ken Charity
Quorn. Kinchley lane, from NE end of SRdam to bend approaching Rabbits Bridge
01 June 2022
Groby John
Groby Pool
30 June 2023
 Near the 'Wash Pit' Sapcote SP 4849 9364 (taken 14.6.2006).JPG)
. Green Lane Sapcote SP 4860 9318 (taken 13.7.2008).JPG)
Amauromyza morionella
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Amauromyza morionella mines the leaves of various Stachys and Lamium species. The frass is conspicuous in the mine and the mine is initially linear, then develops into a white blotch, often enveloping the early mine.
Amauromyza (Cephalomyza) labiatarum
The larva of the Agromyzif fly Amauromyza labiatarum mines the leaves of various plants including Dead-nettles and Woundworts, producing a mine with a narrow gallery leading to a largish blotch on the upper surface. Frass is green and indistinct in the gallery - small grains may be seen at the gallery edge.
Wachtliella stachydis
The larva of the gall midge Wachtliella stachydis causes galls on Hedge Woundwort or Betony. Shoot-tip leaves are curled, thickened and often yellowed. The flowerbuds remain closed with enlarged calyces, and are more hairy than usual.. Larvae inside are orange when mature, white when young.