stachys
IPA: stʌtʃiz
Root Word: Stachys
noun
- one of the largest genera in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae.
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Examples of "stachys" in Sentences
- Wish there were more of the stachys, wonder if it seeds?
- Elsewhere it is the blue of the stachys and the spiked veronica that rules.
- Good deal on the stachys already growing, don’t the bees just find it irresistable?
- The flowers are large and relatively solitary among the felty foliage, and they are wonderful over a foil of silver stachys or acaena.
- The grass mounts high, but not higher than the oxeye daisies, the blue racemes of stachys, the mauve-coloured heads of scabious, the bladder-campions, the yellow buttercups and goat's-beard.
- In early spring the fields and hillsides were clothed in crocus and viola, white stachys, and yellow sternbergia, and pale lilac colchicum nodded on exiguous stalks amid the already sere grass of the meadows.
- A humming-bird moth, that seems to have been just created, for the eye cannot follow its movement in the dusky air, appears suddenly upon the topmost flower of a stachys, and in another moment it has vanished.
- There were patches of purple thyme, of blue stachys, and yellow gallium; there were countless spikes of yellow agrimony and heads of wild carrot, and white ox-eyes looked out from amidst the long grasses like snowflakes of summer.
- Near the water's edge, mingling with sedges, flags, marsh-mallows, bur-reed, and alisma, were the golden flowers of the shrubby lysimachia in dense multitudes, while from the canal itself rose many a spike of water-stachys, with here and there blossoming butomus, near the fringe of the banks.
- Other adaptations to look out for include hairy leaves, such as those of stachys (woolly lamb's ears), because they slow down the wind blowing across the leaf surface; and silver-leaved plants – many of them native to the Mediterranean – that reflect the heat of the sun: olives are a perfect example and are quite happy in a pot.
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