Description
Sold as seed packet (approximately 500 per packet).
At a Glance: Self-heal is a perennial in the mint family. It has purplish to pink short-stalked flowers and can form mats along moist roadsides, clearings, fields, lawns, and forest edges. This pollinator-friendly plant is 1.5 ft. tall.
Leaves: Oblong leaves arranged oppositely; minutely hairy to hairless; relatively few per plant.
Flowers: Purplish to pink short-stalked flowers form spike-like clusters atop stem.
Ethnobotany: Self-heal has history in medieval Europe and among Native Americans as a medicinal herb.
Growing Conditions:
| Sun/Shade Tolerance | Hydrology | Elevation Range |
| full shade > 80%
mostly sunny 60-80% |
Moist
|
Mid elevation
Low elevation |
References:
MacKinnon, A., Pojar, J., & Alaback, P. B. (1994). Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Richmond, Wash: Lone Pine Publishing.
