Marrubium vulgare

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Marrubium vulgare (White Horehound or Common Horehound) is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe, northern Africa and Asia.

It is a greyish-leaved herbaceous perennial plant, somewhat resembling mint in appearance, which grows to 25-45 cm tall. The leaves are 2-5 cm long with a densely crinkled surface, and downy-hairy. The flowers are white, borne in clusters on the upper part of the main stem. Like other members of Lamiaceae, horehound has a square stem.

Marrubium vulgare is also used as a natural grasshopper repellant in agriculture.

Read about Marrubium vulgare in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Marrubium vulgare, Linn. Common Horehound. Height 1-3 ft.: sts. ascending, woolly or tomentose: lvs. ovate to round-ovate, stalked: calyx with 10 recurved teeth, the alternate ones shorter: fls. whitish. Summer.— Now found as an escape from gardens in waste places of nearly every country of the world. Horehound is used in large quantities for confections and medicines for coughs and colds. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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  flowers

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  foliage of young plants

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  Horehound bug, a common insect that feeds on White Horehound

References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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