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five-bladed motherwort

Leonurus quinquelobatus

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 732, February 540, March 847, April 1,332, May 1,921, June 2,095, July 2,241, August 1,928, September 1,415, October 1,056, November 577, December 451.
United States15,136
Alaska15,136
Russia13,388
Moscow Oblast1,541
Moscow1,091
Ukraine967
Penza Oblast751
Chelyabinsk Oblast626
Chuvashia587
Sverdlovsk Oblast572

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
FamilyMint Family · Lamiaceae
Genusmotherworts · Leonurus

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Remember the name next time.

Practise five-bladed motherwort with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.