Prunella laciniata(L.) L.

cutleaf selfheal

WFO wfo-0000283701 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Prunella laciniata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. a Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-07 / obs. 204121763
Prunella laciniata, photographed by CorentinD
fig. b CorentinD, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204222080
Prunella laciniata, photographed by David Delon
fig. c David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202783250
Prunella laciniata, photographed by goldfjnch
fig. d goldfjnch, CC0 1.0 / obs. 141668548
Prunella laciniata, photographed by Andrea Meucci
fig. e Andrea Meucci, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 137614248
Prunella laciniata, photographed by David Delon
fig. f David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137717897
Prunella laciniata, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. g Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135551578
Prunella laciniata, photographed by Andrea Meucci
fig. h Andrea Meucci, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135001794

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Prunella laciniata is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Prunella laciniata, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 442 in flower of 452 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Prunella laciniata 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. 442 of 452 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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.cgje2x.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Prunella afriquena Pau & Font Quer
  • Prunella alba Pall. ex M.Bieb.
  • Prunella alba var. integrifolia Godr.
  • Prunella alba var. pinnatifida (Coss. & Germ.) Gren. & Godr.
  • Prunella grandiflora var. alba Trevir.
  • Prunella grandiflora var. laciniata (L.) Trevir.
  • Prunella integerrima Beck
  • Prunella laciniata subsp. subintegra (Buch.-Ham.) Franco
  • Prunella laciniata var. integerrima (Beck) Nyman
  • Prunella laciniata var. integrifolia Godr.
  • Prunella laciniata var. intermedia Nyman
  • Prunella laciniata var. macrostachya Pau & Font Quer
  • Prunella laciniata var. pinnatifida Coss. & Germ.
  • Prunella laciniata var. subintegra Buch.-Ham.
  • Prunella sulphurea Mill.
  • Prunella vulgaris subsp. alba Bonnier & Layens
  • Prunella vulgaris subsp. laciniata (L.) Čelak.
  • Prunella vulgaris var. laciniata L.

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.

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