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Selfheal

Prunella vulgaris

28,118Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
127Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan140
Feb211
Mar242
Apr642
May1,264
Jun6,475
Jul10,025
Aug3,548
Sep1,575
Oct728
Nov267
Dec118

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,515
2Highland Scotland1,051
3Argyll and Bute Scotland803
4North Yorkshire England635
5Essex England611
6Cambridgeshire England528
7Herefordshire, County of England474
8Sefton England462
9Devon England437
10Oxfordshire England425
11Powys Wales409
12Suffolk England398
13Norfolk England367
14Cornwall England357
15Gloucestershire England357
16,104 England3,141 Scotland1,106 Wales159 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
28,118
Peak month
July
Counties with records
127
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Prunella vulgaris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
77,752
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Prunella
Name with authority
Prunella vulgaris L.
Contributing datasets
69

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158469 · GBIF 5341297