When does common selfheal bloom in Virginia?

Most often in July. Across 519 dated, research-grade observations of Prunella vulgaris in Virginia, the flowering season runs roughly July to October.

Peak July In flower 519 Examined 594 State Virginia

Flowering 519 in flower of 594 examined

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67%

98%

91%

86%

90%

77%

Proportion of examined Prunella vulgaris in Virginia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	3	too few examined
Apr	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
May	7	14	50%	27% to 73%
Jun	42	63	67%	54% to 77%
Jul	209	214	98%	95% to 99%
Aug	127	140	91%	85% to 94%
Sep	48	56	86%	74% to 93%
Oct	76	84	90%	82% to 95%
Nov	10	13	77%	50% to 92%
Dec	0	2	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Prunella vulgaris in Virginia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 519 of 594 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Virginia found Prunella vulgaris in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Virginia, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Prunella vulgaris

common selfheal

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Virginia. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.