Annual yellow woundwort honey
Stachys annua
A light honey from annual yellow woundwort (Italian erba strega), a small weed of cereal fields on limestone soils. It flowers from May to August and yields nectar well.
- Origin
- Marche, Umbria, Abruzzo (Italy); Pannonian Plain
- Colour
- 30 mm · white
- Taste
- faint, not very distinctive aroma
- Plant
- Stachys annua · woundwort →
Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical.
The plant flowered mainly on stubble after the grain harvest; early ploughing has made it scarcer, but its honey is also known from Hungary and neighbouring parts of Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
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