| Prunella vulgaris subsp. lanceolata (Barton) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Labitae — APG family: Lamiaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata (Barton) Fern., Prunella pennsylvanica var. lanceolata Barton | ||
| Common name | self-heal | ||
| Description | Stem ascending or erect, from short rhizome; leaves lanceolate to oblong, grad- ually narrowed or cuneate at base, shallowly dentate; bracts ciliate; corolla with upper lip arched, entire, lower lip 3-cleft, with rounded, denticulate middle lobe. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, roadsides. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Aleutian specimens, with upper part of stem white-tomentose, bracts purple, and base of bracts white-tomentose, belong to the (only slightly different) subsp. alettica (Fern.) Hult. (P. vulgaris var. aleutica Fern.). P. vulgaris described from Europe; subsp. lanceolata from Philadelphia; var. aleutica from Unalaska. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other subspecies. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.