Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Read more about Prunella at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Prunella vulgaris ssp. vulgaris
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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
COMMON NAME:
Eurasian Self-heal, Eurasian Heal-all
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JK Marlow jkm200517_4918
May Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200517_4919
May Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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Gill Newberry gn07_p_inf_vulgaris
July
Calyx 2-lipped, upper lip 3-toothed, lower 2-parted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0407r_30
July Greenville County SC
Furman University
Median stem leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, broadly rounded at base, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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JK Marlow jkm210710_2071
July Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm0308i_06
August Alamance County NC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_prunella_vulgaris_s
August
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Tim Spira tpspvulgaris
Month Unknown
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Prunella vulgaris ssp. vulgaris
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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
1155
Forb
Perennial
Non-native: Eurasia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare
Look for it in disturbed areas, pastures, roadsides, bottomland forests, other forests & woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite & often basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Violet
Bisexual
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
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p088
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p378?
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p078
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p153
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p203
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p080?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p216
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p224
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p224?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p267?
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p431
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p143
- Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p133