I have no idea what this plant is or how to look after it. A friend said it is named commonly as " Lambs Ears ". Anyone help on this. Thank you.
Your Lamb's ear's Latin name is Stachys byzantine David. They're often used for ground cover. I've found that these plants need very little maintenance. Water only when the soil is significantly dry. Watch the foliage carefully though in high rainfall areas or regions prone to humid conditions as the foliage could show signs of rot.
I agree with Eileen. I have a few of these in my gardens as well and really like their silvery foliage.
My lambs ears are quite spindly compared to yours David. I must have a different variety. Do you plan to keep it in the pot?
Mine are a bit spindly as well but in a large group they look pretty good. I like the flower stem that they will send up.
Me too. Their silvery foliage is eye catching in the garden. Mine tend to gently self sow & show up in unexpected places. I have a cultivated variety, 'Helen von Stein' which does not bloom, retains a more compact foliage but is just not as silvery! It has never occurred to me to use it in a pot, but the foliage would contrast very nicely green potted plants.
So now I am going to put a fly in the ointment. If those are flowers( pinkish things at the bottom middle of the plant) then it is one of the Helichrysums rather than Stachys. Just saying!
Wow Palustris, you might be right. I thought the growth habit was odd for a Stachys bizantine. And now that I see that flower, it doesn't look particularly Stachys like. Are helichrysoms annuals? Or annuals in the northern 1/2 of the world? (I don't know where you garden). I am not familiar with them.
It looks a lot like Helichrysum sanguineum pictured on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helichrysum
With those slender leaves I am leaning toward the Helichrysum sanguineum. I have Lamb's Ear Stachys byzantina (Lamb's Ears) in several places in the front yard and the leaves are much broader than those and it's a low, wide mounding plant. The problem with using only common names is that they really do not identify the plant properly in many cases. The silvery, fuzzy leaves will have many people automatically calling it Lamb's Ear because because of those silvery fuzzy leaves.
