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Cooley’s hedge nettle (Stachys cooleyae) likes to grow along stream beds and in marshy spots. It blooms from June to August. Sighted this August in Cowen Park, it flowers sparsely, so you never get a cloud of magenta flowers. #Photography#NativePlants#NativePlantsOfThePNW#SeattleWashington 📷🌿

Cooley’s hedge nettle has tubular magenta flowers with lips covered with and magenta mottling.  The entire plant is tall and fuzzy, and often mistaken for nettles.  It doesn’t sting! The leaves are oval and dentate.  This plant was alone amid a stand of horsetail and other wild plants, and has four flowers at the top of its stem, one facing forward, two sideways and one turned away.
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