Black Horehound
Ballota nigra L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- —
Lamiaceae
Formerly Stachys ballota
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Europe to Medit. and IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, magenta, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -10 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Catalan
- malrubí negre
- Spanish
- Marrubio fétido
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Ballota nigra (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.