Compilation
Stachys aurea

an erect branched shrub or undershrub; branches quadrangular, elongated, not so hard as in S. teres, very sparingly leafy, densely and shortly white- or yellowish-tomentose; leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, oblong, lanceolate-oblong or sometimes obovate, 5–10 lin. long, 1–4 lin. broad, rounded or obtuse, rarely acute, narrowed or rounded at the base, entire or few-toothed in the upper part, more or less covered with stellate hairs, sometimes glabrescent; bracts usually about as long as or shorter than the calyx; whorls 2–8-flowered, several, the lower distant, the upper close together; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; calyx campanulate, 2 3/4–5 1/2 lin. long, very densely yellowish-woolly; teeth subulate or linear, 1–2 3/4 lin. long, not spinescent; corolla yellow, slightly tomentose outside; tube 2 1/4–3 lin. long; upper lip suborbicular or broadly ovate, 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. long; lower lip about 3 lin. long. null