Stachys albens

Stachys albens, also known as whitestem hedgenettle or white hedgenettle, is a mint endemic to California. S. albens flowers have a 2-lipped, 5-lobed calyx, which is densely cob-webby and white to pinkish in color with purplish veins. The plant is fuzzy all over with opposite, triangular, serrate leaves, a square stem, a layered spike of many small flowers and a minty smell if bruised.

Distribution
Stachys albens occurs between 0 (sea level) and 9000 feet, in wet, swampy to seepy places in the following plant communities:
 * Foothill oak woodland.
 * Coastal sage scrub.
 * Yellow pine forest.
 * Red fir forest.
 * Lodgepole pine forest.
 * California mixed evergreen forest.
 * Wetland-riparian.
 * Pinyon-juniper woodland - Mojave and Colorado Deserts.