Betonica officinalisL.

Betonycommon hedgenettle

WFO wfo-0000329771 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Betonica officinalis, photographed by David Lazarus
fig. a David Lazarus, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-14 / obs. 205982602
Betonica officinalis, photographed by Sofiia Sviridenko
fig. b Sofiia Sviridenko, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204328827
Betonica officinalis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203314752
Betonica officinalis, photographed by David Lazarus
fig. d David Lazarus, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202396141
Betonica officinalis, photographed by Tobias Schönberg
fig. e Tobias Schönberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202260569
Betonica officinalis, photographed by Valerii Glazunov
fig. f Valerii Glazunov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201888796
Betonica officinalis, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. g Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200823307
Betonica officinalis, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. h Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202195513

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Betonica officinalis is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Altay, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, West Siberia, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaAltayNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeWest SiberiaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyKrymNetherlandsNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Betonica officinalis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
West Siberia WSB
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 1,071 in flower of 1,270 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Betonica officinalis 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. 1,071 of 1,270 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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.cgje2x.

Also published as 99 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Betonica affinis Wender.
  • Betonica algeriensis de Noé
  • Betonica alpigena Schur
  • Betonica angustifolia Jord. & Fourr.
  • Betonica bjelorussica Kossko ex Klokov
  • Betonica brachydonta Klokov
  • Betonica brachystachya Jord. & Fourr.
  • Betonica cernagorae (Beck & Szyszył.) Wettst.
  • Betonica cernagorae Beck & Szyszył.
  • Betonica clementei Pérez Lara
  • Betonica danica Mill.
  • Betonica densiflora Schur
  • Betonica drymophila Jord. & Fourr.
  • Betonica foliosa C.Presl
  • Betonica fusca Klokov
  • Betonica glabrata K.Koch
  • Betonica glabriflora Borbás
  • Betonica grandifolia Jord. & Fourr.
  • Betonica haussknechtii (Nyman) Uechtr. ex Hausskn.
  • Betonica hirta Leyss.
  • Betonica hylebium Jord. & Fourr.
  • Betonica incana Mill.
  • Betonica laxata Jord. & Fourr.
  • Betonica legitima Link

and 75 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.