Қанткен ақселеу тұқымдасының Stachys туысы

Genus of plants in the sage family
the bishop

Stachys is a genus of plants, one of the largest in the mint family Lamiaceae. Estimates of the number of species vary from about 300, Stachys is in the subfamily Lamioideae The precise extent of the genus and its relationship to other genera in the subfamily are poorly known.

The distribution of the genus covers Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and North America. Common names include hedgenettle, heal all, self heal, woundwort, betony, and lamb's ears. Wood betony, S. officinalis, was the most important medicinal herb to the Anglo Saxons of early medieval England, and was used for many medicinal purposes from Ancient Roman times to the Early Modern period. Stachys was named by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum in 1753. The name is derived from the Greek word σταχυς (stachys), meaning "an ear of grain", and refers to the fact that the inflorescence is often a spike. The name woundwort derives from the past use of certain species in herbal medicine for the treatment of wounds.

The Chinese artichoke or Crosne (S. affinis), is grown for its edible tuber.

Stachys is a genus of shrubs and annual or perennial herbs. The stems vary from tall, with simple, opposite, triangular leaves, long with serrate margins. In most species, the leaves are softly hairy. The flowers are long, clustered in the axils of the leaves on the upper part of the stem. The corolla is 5 lobed with the top lobe forming a 'hood', varying from white to pink, purple, red or pale yellow.

The distinction between Stachys and other genera is unclear and has varied from one author to another. In 2002, a molecular phylogenetic study showed that Stachys officinalis is not closely related to the rest of the genus. This study also found six other genera to be embedded within Stachys as it is currently circumscribed. The embedded genera are Prasium, Phlomidoschema, Sideritis, Haplostachys, Phyllostegia, and Stenogyne.

†Stachys pliocenica fossil seeds are known from Upper Miocene strata of Bulgaria and Pliocene strata of south eastern Belarus. The fossil seeds are similar to the seeds of Stachys cretica.

Agastache foeniculum (Pursh) Kuntze (as S. foeniculum Pursh)
Leonurus japonicus Houtt. (as S. artemisia Lour.) Stachys monieri (Gouan) P. W. Ball, now in the synonymy of Betonica officinalis
Betonica macrantha K. Koch (as S. macrantha (K. Koch) Stearn)
Betonica officinalis L. (as S. officinalis (L.) Trevis.)