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Genus: S

Sagina
Corsican moss
Salvia
pineapple sage
Sambucus
sweet elderberry
Sanguinaria
bloodroot
Saponaria
Mediterranean pink
Sasa
bamboo
Sasaella
bamboo
Sassafras
sassafras
Saururus
lizard's tail
Saxifraga
strawberry begonia
Schizachyrium
bunchgrass; little bluestem
Scirpus
bulrush
Sedum
(sedum); golden moss; wall pepper; wild stonecrop; worm grass; yellow stonecrop
Semiarundinaria
bamboo
Sempervivum
cobweb houseleek; common houseleek; hens-and-chickens
Senecio
golden groundsel
Shibataea
bamboo
Silene
fire pink
Silphium
cup plant
Sisyrinchium
pointed blue-eyed grass
Sorghastrum
Indian grass
Spartina
variegated prairie cordgrass
Sphagnum
sphagnum moss
Spigelia
Indian pink
Spiraea
meadowsweet
Sporobolus
prairie dropseed
Stachys
Betony; hedge nettle; woundwort
Stokesia
Stokes' aster
Stylophorum
celandine poppy; wood poppy
Styrax
Japanese snowbell tree
Symphytum
comfrey

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Catalog as of April 01, 2008

Stachys

(Labiatae - mint family)
About 300 species of herbs and subshrubs, of wide distribution. A few species are cultivated as ornamentals. S. affinis is cultivated for its edible root tubers.

affinis peren • ht 1½' • zones 5-9

Chinese artichoke; Japanese artichoke; chorogi

Stachys affinis - Jul 10 Stachys affinis - Jul 10


edible, ground cover, sun
China

Upright stems with hairy, crinkly leaves. Small white or pink flowers in summer. Produces an abundance of small, white, edible root tubers, for which it is much cultivated in Japan. Spreads to form a very solid ground cover.

cat # 6G7H
$7.95 each / 3+, $7.50 ea