lance selfheal

(Prunella vulgaris ssp. lanceolata)

Conservation Status

 

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  IUCN Red List

not listed

     
  NatureServe

N5 - Secure

SNA - No Status Rank

     
  Minnesota

not listed

     
           
Wetland Indicator Status
     
  Great Plains

FAC - Facultative

     
  Midwest

FAC - Facultative

     
  Northcentral & Northeast

FAC - Facultative

     
           
 
Description
 
 

Lance selfheal is a 4 to 20 tall, perennial forb that rises on one or more stems from fibrous roots.

The stems can be drooping, almost laying flat on the ground, to almost erect. They are unbranched, 4-angled, and winged.

The leaves are opposite, lance-shaped to oblong lance-shaped, to 1½ long, and ¼ to wide. The middle stem leaves are as wide as long. They are on ¼ to 1 long leaf stalks. The upper and lower surfaces are hairless or have sparse, long, soft, shaggy, unmatted hairs. The margins are untoothed.

The inflorescence is an egg-shaped, ¾ to 2 long, and to ¾ wide spike of many flowers at the end of the stem.

The flowers are to ¾ long. There are 5 petals fused at the base into a tube about long, then separated into an upper and lower lip. The upper lip is purple, almost round, hood-like, about 3 16 in diameter, and notched at the tip. The lower lip is white and about half as long as the upper lip. It is divided into 3 lobes, a large central lobe and 2 smaller lateral lobes. The lateral lobes are about 1 16 long and spreading. The central lobe is about long, strongly bent downward, and fringed at the tip. There are 4 stamens that are concealed under the hood.

The fruit is a smooth brownish-yellow nutlet about 1 16 long.

 
     
 

Height

 
 

4 to 20

 
     
 

Flower Color

 
 

Purple to violet-blue

 
     
 

Similar Species

 
 

Common self-heal (Prunella vulgaris ssp. vulgaris) leaves tend to be a little longer and much wider. They are egg-shaped to oblong egg-shaped, up to 2 long, and up to 1 wide. The middle stem leaves are ½ as wide as long. The upper surface is almost hairless or is covered with very small, coarse, stiff hairs. The lower surface is almost hairless. The margins are wavy.

 
     
 
Habitat
 
 

Disturbed sites.

 
     
 
Ecology
 
 

Flowering

 
 

June to October

 
     
 

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Distribution
 
 

Distribution Map

 

Sources

4, 7, 29, 30.

 
  5/5/2023      
         
 

Nativity

 
 

Native

 
         
 

Occurrence

 
 

 

 
         
 
Taxonomy
 
  Kingdom Plantae (green algae and land plants)  
  Subkingdom Viridiplantae (green plants)  
  Infrakingdom Streptophyta (land plants and green algae)  
  Superdivision Embryophyta (land plants)  
  Division Tracheophyta (vascular plants)  
  Subdivision Spermatophytina (seed plants)  
  Class Magnoliopsida (flowering plants)  
  Superorder Asteranae  
 

Order

Lamiales (mints, plantains, olives, and allies)  
 

Family

Lamiaceae (mint)  
  Subfamily Nepetoideae  
  Tribe Mentheae  
 

Subtribe

Prunellinae (cleonias, dragonmouths, and selfheals)  
  Genus Prunella (selfheals)  
  Species Prunella vulgaris (common self-heal)  
       
 

Synonyms

 
 

Prunella vulgaris var. elongata

Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata

 
       
 

Common Names

 
 

common all-heal

common self-heal

heal-all

healall

lance selfheal

lance self-heal

lawn prunella

self-heal

selfheal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glossary

Wing

A thin, flat, membranous, usually transparent appendage on the margin of a structure.

 
 
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