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
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Read more about Prunella at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Additional herbarium work is needed to clearly determine the relative ranges, distributions, habitats, and abundances of the two varieties, var. vulgaris and var. lanceolata, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
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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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
Principal or median cauline leaves ovate to ovate-oblong; leaf broadly rounded at the base, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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JK Marlow jkm250618_1120
June Greenville County SC
Poinsett Bridge Heritage Preserve
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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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm0407r_30
July Greenville County SC
Furman University
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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 (Carman, 2005).
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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
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
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p088
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p378?
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p534
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p078
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p203
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p080?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p216
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p239
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p224
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p224?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p267?
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p431
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p143
- Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses (Murphy et al., 1992) p133
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