Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Lycopus > Lycopus europaeusLycopus europaeus (gypsywort)Synonyms: Lycopus alboroseus; Lycopus albus; Lycopus aquaticus; Lycopus decrescens; Lycopus europaeus f. glabrescens; Lycopus europaeus f. lanuginosus; Lycopus europaeus f. pusillus; Lycopus europaeus f. velutina; Lycopus europaeus menthifolius; Lycopus europaeus mollis; Lycopus europaeus var. elatior; Lycopus europaeus var. europaeus; Lycopus europaeus var. glabrescens; Lycopus europaeus var. hirsutus; Lycopus europaeus var. incanus; Lycopus europaeus var. menthifolius; Lycopus europaeus var. mollis; Lycopus europaeus var. procerior; Lycopus europaeus var. pubescens; Lycopus europaeus var. stolonifer; Lycopus europaeus var. subpinnatifidus; Lycopus europaeus var. trichophora; Lycopus intermedius; Lycopus laciniatus (heterotypic); Lycopus menthifolius; Lycopus mollis; Lycopus niger; Lycopus palustris; Lycopus riparius; Lycopus riparius var. incisus; Lycopus solanifolius; Lycopus souliei; Lycopus vulgaris (heterotypic) Lycopus europaeus, common names gypsywort, gipsywort, bugleweed, European bugleweed and water horehound, is a perennial plant in the Lycopus genus, native to Europe and Asia, and naturalized elsewhere. Another species, Lycopus americanus has also been erroneously called L. europaeus. |
Height [1] | 39 inches (1 m) | | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | Structure [3] | Herb | | Light Preference [2] | Mostly Sunny | Soil Acidity [2] | Neutral | Soil Fertility [2] | Intermediate | Soil Moisture [2] | Damp |
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Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Cantabric Coast - Languedoc |
France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Eastern Iberia |
Andorra, France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Lake Onega - Lake Ladoga |
Finland, Russia |
Palearctic |
Large Lakes |
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Northern Baltic Drainages |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
Palearctic |
Polar Freshwaters |
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Norwegian Sea Drainages |
Norway, Sweden |
Palearctic |
Polar Freshwaters |
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Southern Iberia |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Upper Danube |
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Volga - Ural |
Kazakhstan, Russia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Western Iberia |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Avon Gorge Woodlands |
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376 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Braunton Burrows |
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3328 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Breckland |
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18652 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries/ Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd |
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163340 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths |
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14161 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Eryri/ Snowdonia |
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48773 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Essex Estuaries |
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114016 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Fenland |
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1529 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Firth of Lorn |
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51830 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Isles of Scilly Complex |
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66350 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Loch Fada |
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199 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Lower Derwent Valley |
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2263 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Morecambe Bay |
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151985 |
England, United Kingdom |
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North Norfolk Coast |
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7926 |
England, United Kingdom |
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North York Moors |
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108930 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol |
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341177 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau |
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360832 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Pevensey Levels |
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8860 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Salisbury Plain |
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52975 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Sefton Coast |
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11278 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren |
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182155 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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Solway Firth |
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107829 |
England/Scotland, United Kingdom |
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South Wight Maritime |
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49082 |
England, United Kingdom |
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The Broads |
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14554 |
England, United Kingdom |
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The New Forest |
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72309 |
England, United Kingdom |
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The Wash and North Norfolk Coast |
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266284 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Y Fenai a Bae Conwy/ Menai Strait and Conwy Bay |
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65440 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004) ♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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