Stachys chamissonis - Magenta butterfly flower

Magenta butterfly flower (Stachys chamissonis) is a deciduous California perennial of redwood-belt seeps and roadside drainage ditches, with purple-pink flowers, suckering freely wherever soil stays wet. It grows 0.7-1 m tall and 0.5-1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Wet soil¹

Type

• Herb¹
• Perennial¹
• Deciduous¹

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Ground cover¹
• Nectar¹
• Attracting beneficial insects¹
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.7-1
Diameter (m)	0.5-1

Footnotes

1. Stachys chamissonis, Magenta Butterfly Flower | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩