Horehound
Marrubium vulgare L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 46 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Lamiaceae
Also called White horehound
Formerly Marrubium apulum, Marrubium ballotoides, Marrubium hamatum, Marrubium hyperleucum, and 2 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
- Macaronesia, Europe, Medit. to C. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Andorn, Gewöhnlicher Andorn
- Asturian
- bombarón
- Czech
- jablečník obecný
- Finnish
- valkohurtanminttu
- French
- marrube, Marrube blanc
- Italian
- Marrubio
- Dutch
- malrove, Malrove
- Polish
- Szanta zwyczajna
- Russian
- Шандра обыкновенная
- Turkish
- Köpek otu
- Chinese
- 欧夏至草, 雪猪油
- Simplified Chinese
- 欧夏至草
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Marrubium vulgare (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.