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Prunella vulgaris (common selfheal; heal all; healall; selfheal)

Synonyms: Brunella vulgaris; Prunella vulgaris f. vulgaris; Prunella vulgaris parviflora

Wikipedia Abstract

Prunella vulgaris (known as common self-heal or heal-all) is an herbaceous plant in the genus Prunella. Self-heal is edible: the young leaves and stems can be eaten raw in salads; the plant in whole can be boiled and eaten as a potherb; and the aerial parts of the plant can be powdered and brewed in a cold infusion to make a beverage.
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Infraspecies

Prunella vulgaris asiatica (Aleutian selfheal)
Prunella vulgaris estremadurensis
Prunella vulgaris f. albiflora
Prunella vulgaris f. rhodantha
Prunella vulgaris hispida (common selfheal)
Prunella vulgaris lanceolata (lance selfheal)
Prunella vulgaris nanhutashanense
Prunella vulgaris var. laciniata
Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris vulgaris

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Screening - Summer [3]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [3]  Porous
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue
Flower Color [3]  Purple
Foliage Color [3]  Gray-Green
Fruit Color [3]  Green
Bloom Period [3]  Mid Summer
Drought Tolerance [3]  Medium
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [3]  Medium
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  3 months 25 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [3]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [3]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [3]  Fall
Growth Form [3]  Stoloniferous
Growth Period [3]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [3]  Rapid
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [4]  Bees
Propagation [3]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [3]  Slow
Root Depth [3]  10 inches (25 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [3]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [3]  Low
Seeds Per [3]  667999 / lb (1472686 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [3]  Decumbent
Structure [6]  Herb
Usage [4]  An olive-green dye is obtained from the flowers and stems; The plant is a good ground-cover in sunny positions or light shade;
Vegetative Spread Rate [3]  Slow
Flower Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Height [4]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Width [4]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [5]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [5]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [5]  Moist
Water Use [3]  Moderate
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Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces biocellatus[9]
Puccinia moliniae[9]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 5ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Jorrit 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.
♦ 10del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 11Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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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