Stachys palustris
Stachys palustris, commonly known as marsh woundwort, marsh betony, clown's woundwort, clown's heal-all, marsh hedgenettle, or hedge-nettle, is an edible perennial grassland herb growing to 80 centimeters tall. It is native to parts of Eurasia but has been introduced to North America. The species epithet palustris is Latin for "of the marsh" and indicates its common habitat.

Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StachysPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Stachys palustris on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
7 occurrences- Pliocene29%
- Pleistocene71%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Stachys palustris and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Stachys palustris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Carex4 sites
- Chara4 sites
- Thalictrum flavum4 sites
- Donacia impressa3 sites
- Menyanthes trifoliata3 sites
- Potentilla3 sites
- Schoenoplectus3 sites
- Tournotaris bimaculatus3 sites
- Aleocharinae2 sites
- Anotylus rugosus2 sites
- Bembidion (Trepanedoris) doris2 sites
- Bruchidius debilis2 sites
- Cercyon tristis2 sites
- Cicuta virosa2 sites
- Dryops2 sites
- Eleocharis2 sites
- Limnobaris pilistriata2 sites
- Polygonum hydropiper2 sites
- Ranunculus2 sites
- Ranunculus lingua2 sites
- Stenus2 sites
- Actinopteri1 site
- Agonum1 site
- Agroeca1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Stachys palustris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Late Devensian river deposits beneath the floodplain terrace of the River Thames at Abingdon, Berkshire, England5
- Die pliozaenen Floren von Thueringen, Deutsche Demokratische Republik2
Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Stachys palustris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Ivar Leidus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stachys palustris was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStachys through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753