OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Prunella vulgaris ssp. vulgaris   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Prunella vulgaris ssp. vulgaris

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-12-001:

Prunella vulgaris   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Prunella vulgaris var. hispida

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Prunella vulgaris

 

COMMON NAME:
Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all


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image of Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris, Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all

JK Marlow    jkm200517_4918

May    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris, Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all

JK Marlow    jkm200517_4919

May    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Principal or median cauline leaves ovate to ovate-oblong; leaf broadly rounded at the base, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris, Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all

Gill Newberry    gn07_p_inf_vulgaris

July        

Calyx 2-lipped, upper lip 3-toothed, lower 2-parted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris, Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all

JK Marlow    jkm0407r_30

July    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

image of Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris, Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all

JK Marlow    jkm210710_2071

July    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris, Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all

JK Marlow    jkm210710_2073b

July    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

The 2-lipped blue-violet flowers are borne in a crowded terminal spike, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris, Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all

JK Marlow    jkm0308i_06

August    Alamance County    NC

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Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_prunella_vulgaris_s

August        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Prunella vulgaris ssp. vulgaris   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Prunella vulgaris ssp. vulgaris

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-12-001:
Prunella vulgaris   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Prunella vulgaris var. hispida

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Prunella vulgaris

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1155

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Disturbed areas, pastures, roadsides, bottomland forests; other forests and woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite & often basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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