stachys

British  

/ ˈsteɪkɪs /

noun

1. any plant of the genus Stachys , esp S. lanata (lamb's ears) and S. officinalis (betony)

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Etymology

Origin of stachys

New Latin, from Greek stachys ear of corn, used as a plant name

Example Sentences

In his very public Philadelphia home garden, a 14-foot-long, sidewalk-facing bed, he uses other colorful foliage to set off bulbs, too, including dark-colored Geranium maculatum Espresso and a gold lamb’s ear, Stachys byzantina Primrose Heron.

From New York Times

The final move was to tuck in yellow single tulips from the deli—with their flat, green leaves—and silver felted stachys foliage to simulate the gestures of the work.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its specific name is a happy one, denoting its resemblance to the Stachys, or hedge-nettle.

From Project Gutenberg

Wound′wort, a name applied to several plants of popular repute as vulneraries, as the kidney-vetch, &c.: a plant of genus Stachys, the marsh or clown's woundwort.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Nor does the beauty of my hedgerow end here for all along beneath grow rare and lovely grasses, interspersed with star-eyed silenes and gorgeous spikes of the purple stachys, while the adjoining sward is carpeted over with beds of brilliant clover, red and white, with golden bird’s-foot trefoil, and patches of pale blue speedwells.

From Project Gutenberg