White Horehound "Jablecnik" Marrubium vulgare
White Horehound "Jablecnik"
A perennial herbaceous plant with a tetrahedral, whitish-woolly and branched stem.
The leaves are opposite, rounded-ovate, crenate, wrinkled, dark green above, white-tomentose below.
The flowers are small, two-lipped, dirty white, collected in spherical half-whorls.
The fruit is four obovate nuts located in a calyx.
Plant height 30-60 cm.
Flowering time: June - August.
Part used: tops of stems with leaves and flowers, plant juice.
Harvesting time: June - August.
Eng.: White Horehound. Suom.: Hurtanminttu. Sven.: Kransborre.