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.