Discover
Identify
Record
Black Horehound - Ballota nigra
Medium to tall, often straggling, very aromatic plant. Flowers lilac 12 to 14 mm in dense whorls along the leafy stem. Calyx funnel shaped with triangular, finely-pointed 4 to 6.5 mm long teeth.
Red dead-nettle, Hedge Woundwort
Calyx has 5 equal lobes
Woodland margins, hedgebanks and roadside verges.
June to September.
Perennial.
Mainly found in England except the north-west. Scarcer in Wales and Scotland.
Frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 247 of the 617 tetrads.
Leicestershire & Rutland Map
Enter a town or village to see local records
MAP KEY:
Yellow squares = NBN records (all known data)
Coloured circles = NatureSpot records: 2020+ | 2015-2019 | pre-2015
UK Map
Species profile
- Common names
- Black Horehound
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Lamiales
- Family:
- Lamiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 137
- First record:
- 23/06/2006 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 25/08/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
Total records by month
% of records within its species group
10km squares with records
The latest images and records displayed below include those awaiting verification checks so we cannot guarantee that every identification is correct. Once accepted, the record displays a green tick.
In the Latest Records section, click on the header to sort A-Z, and again to sort Z-A. Use the header boxes to filter the list.