Leonurus cardiacaL.

common motherwort

WFO wfo-0000224637 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Leonurus cardiaca, photographed by Nash Turley
fig. a Nash Turley, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205196472
Leonurus cardiaca, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. b Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196044733
Leonurus cardiaca, photographed by Mark VanDerwater
fig. c Mark VanDerwater, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199817303
Leonurus cardiaca, photographed by Betsy Lambert
fig. d Betsy Lambert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195498568
Leonurus cardiaca, photographed by Fluff Berger
fig. e Fluff Berger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193048724
Leonurus cardiaca, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. f Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194785669
Leonurus cardiaca, photographed by scapularis
fig. g scapularis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192417595
Leonurus cardiaca, photographed by Raesha Svatora
fig. h Raesha Svatora, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194294395

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Flowering n = 1,621 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,621 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 27 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.

  • Cardiaca crispa (Murray) Moench
  • Cardiaca glabra Gilib.
  • Cardiaca stachys Medik.
  • Cardiaca trilobata Lam.
  • Cardiaca vulgaris Moench
  • Lamium cardiaca (L.) Baill.
  • Leonurus aconitifolius Scheidw.
  • Leonurus campestris Andrz. ex Benth.
  • Leonurus cardiaca subsp. cardiaca
  • Leonurus cardiaca subsp. intermedius (Holub) Dostál
  • Leonurus cardiaca var. adscendens K.Koch
  • Leonurus cardiaca var. capitatus Wender.
  • Leonurus cardiaca var. hirtella Holub
  • Leonurus cardiaca var. intermedium Holub
  • Leonurus cardiaca var. intermedius Holub
  • Leonurus cardiaca var. rotundifolia Zalewski
  • Leonurus crispus Murray
  • Leonurus discolor W.D.J.Koch
  • Leonurus glabra (Gilib.) Gilib.
  • Leonurus illyricus Benth.
  • Leonurus intermedius Holub
  • Leonurus lacerus Lindl.
  • Leonurus multifidus Raf.
  • Leonurus neglectus Schrank

and 3 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.

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