Prunella vulgaris, SE: Brunört, DE: Kleine Braunelle,
NL: Gewone brunel, UK: Common Selfheal, Heal-All, Heart-of-the-earth

Scientific name:		Prunella vulgaris L.
Swedish name:		Brunört, skogshumle, vanlig brunört
German name:		Kleine Braunelle
Nederlandse naam:		Gewone brunel
English name:		Common Selfheal, Heal-All or Heart-of-the-earth
Family:		Lamiaceae, Mint family, Kransblommiga växter

Date Picture Taken: July 16, 2008

Life form:		Perennial herb
Stems:		10-50 cm, 4-angled, crimson tinged, and erect to decumbent, glabrous to short-hairy
Leaves:		Lance shaped, serrated and reddish at tip
Flowers:		Two lipped and tubular, top lip purple, and bottom lip is often white
Flowering Period:		June-August
Fruits:		Fruit-spike
Habitat:		Waste ground, grassland, woodland edges, usually on basic and neutral soils

Date Picture Taken: July 17, 2008 Derivation of the botanical name: Prunella, brunella, Brunfels, is from the German Braune, a kind of "quinsy" which the plant was supposed to cure. vulgaris, Latin for "common". The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. History: According to the 16th-century herbalist John Gerard, ‘it serves for the same that Bugle does, and in the world there are not two better wounds herbs, as has been often proved'. The 17th-century botanist Nicholas Culpeper wrote that the plant is called selfheal because ‘when you are hurt, you may heal yourself’. Date Picture Taken: September 17, 2009