Prunella vulgaris -- (Heal-All)


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 Scientific Name:  Prunella vulgaris
 Common Name:  Heal-All
 Other Common Names:  Common Selfheal
 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  Purple
 Plant Origin:  Native
 Soil Type prefered:  Sand, Loam, Clay
 Drought Tolerance:  Medium
 Flower Conspicuous:  Yes
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  Medium
 Moisture Use:  Medium
 Shade Tolerance:  Intermediate
 Active Growth Period:  Spring, Summer
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  None
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  Medium
 Bloom Period:  Mid Summer
 Commercial Availability:  Routinely Available
 Cold Stratification Required:  No
 Fall Conspicuous:  No
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  115
 Foliage Color:  Gray-Green
 Fruit/Seed Abundance:  Medium
 Fruit/Seed Period Begin:  Summer
 Fruit/Seed Conspicuous:  No
 Fruit/Seed Period End:  Fall
 Fruit/Seed Color:  Green
 Fruit/Seed Persistence:  No
 Fire Tolerance:  Medium
 Foliage Texture:  Coarse
 Growth Form:  Stoloniferous
 Growth Habit:  Forb/herb
 Growth Rate:  Rapid
 Height, Mature (feet):  1.5
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Moderate
 pH (Maximum):  8
 pH (Minimum):  5.4
 Precipitation (Minimum):  16
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Root Depth, Min. (inches):  10
 Salt Tolerance:  None
 Shape and Orientation:  Decumbent
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed per Pound:  668000
 Seed Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Seedling Vigor:  Low
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -38
 Toxicity:  None
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  Slow
 Propagation:  Seed
 Palpable: (eatable)  Human (Yes)
 Where Found in S.E. MN:

 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Lamiales
 Family:  Lamiaceae
 Genus:  Prunella

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