Motherwort
Leonurus cardiaca L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.4 m
- wide
- 75 cm
Lamiaceae
Also called Common motherwort
Formerly Cardiaca crispa, Cardiaca stachys, Cardiaca trilobata, Cardiaca vulgaris, and 10 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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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
- Europe to IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 1.1 m to 1.8 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 1.5–2.5 m; Wikipedia 60–100 cm
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- German
- Herzgespann, Echtes Herzgespann
- Czech
- buřina srdečník pravá
- Spanish
- Agripalma
- Finnish
- Nukula, rohtonukula
- French
- Agripaume, agripaume cardiaque
- Dutch
- hartgespan, Hartgespan
- Chinese
- 欧益母草
- Slovenian
- deljenolistna srčnica
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Leonurus cardiaca (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.