Prunella vulgaris
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Lamiaceae›Prunella›Prunella vulgaris
Ecology
A patch-forming perennial herb of neutral and calcareous grassland, growing in clearings in woods, in meadows, pastures and lawns, on roadsides and waste ground, typically associated with moist, fertile soils. It forms clonal patches in short-grazed turf and spreads by the detachment of daughter ramets. 0-755 m (Knock Fell, Westmorland), and 845 m on Great Dun Fell (Westmorland).
Status
Native
Trends
P. vulgaris is very frequent throughout Britain and Ireland, and in areas where it has been mapped in detail it has usually proved to be present in almost all tetrads. There is no evidence for a change in overall distribution.
World Distribution
Circumpolar Wide-temperate element; widely naturalised outside its native range.
© M. Cotterill, IWNHAS
© M. Cotterill, IWNHAS
SZ348858, Freshwater Bay
© M. Cotterill, IWNHAS
Broad Habitats
Light (Ellenberg): 7
Moisture (Ellenberg): 5
Reaction (Ellenberg): 6
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 4
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.5
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 14.4
Annual Precipitation (mm): 1106
Height (cm): 30
Perennation - primary
Perennial
Life Form - primary
Hemicryptophyte
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Shortly creeping and rooting at nodes
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 2783
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 970
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 14
Atlas Change Index: 0.6
Weighted Changed Factor: 18
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
37
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000004225