| Scientific Name: | Prunella vulgaris |
| Common Name: | self-heal |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Irregular |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Erosion control, Herb, Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Ovate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, Blue, Violet, Apr-May-Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems ribbed and 4-sided; common lawn weed that can be kept short by mowing; leaves opposite, ovate to lanceolate, most blades 2-4cm long x 1-2.5cm wide, margin usually entire and ciliate; flowers blue, in spike-like verticillasters. | |