Native to Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine; introduced into Baltic States, District of Columbia, Great Britain, New York (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Switzerland, Canton Valais, Ried-Brig
46.298611, 8.054444
Location Remarks
Off Highway 9 (E62), i.e., Simplonstrasse, at Ganterbrucke; old highway on north side of Saltina River (Ganterbach). 1407 m elev.
Collectors
Christopher Davidson, Martin W. Callmander, Beat Bäumler, Sven Buerki, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Steep, rocky roadside bank and rock faces; north side of the road and south side above the river.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Stachys
Specific Epithet
recta
Authorship
L.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 2.5
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.2
Global rank
#172,725 of 335,497
Top 52%
Extinction probability
10%