Horehound
Finished Flowering, B4 Seeding
Horehound
In Seed
| Horehound Finished Flowering, B4 Seeding | | Horehound In Seed | | ||
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | |||
| Order: | Mints (Lamiales) | ||||
| Family: | Mint (Lamiaceae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Horehound (Marrubium vulgare) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Seed Pod Hooks🔎 | ||||
| Other names: | Hound's Bane, Marrube, Marvel, White Horehound or Woolly Horehound | ||||
Thank you Alan Dandie (Alan_Dandie) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere #3 Enemy: Bush with green grey foliage, very hard to spot in saltbush. Hides well. Seeds last decades in the soil, so long term monitoring of an infected area is required to ensure it doesn't become re-established. Has little hooks on the seed pods that get stuck to animal fur (and socks!) which spreads the seed very effectively. With the recent flooding (2022) we found the first horehound, about to seed, for many years from an old seed bank. | |||||
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