Ground-ivy - Glechoma hederacea
Low to short patch forming plant, aromatic, creeping and rooting at the nodes. Flowering stems ascending to erect. Leaves kidney shaped to almost heart shaped, coarsely toothed and long stalked. Flowers pale violet blue with purple spots on the lower lip, occasionally pink found at base of leaves.
Varied habitats such as hedgerows and roadside verges, waste and cultivated land.
March to May.
Perennial.
Common throughout Britain.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 588 of the 617 tetrads.
David Nicholls
Aylestone Meadows
18 May 2013
Barbara Cooper
Holwell
15 April 2013
David Nicholls
Narborough Bog NR
02 May 2009 Old Fosse Sapcote SP 5023 9277 (taken 23.5.2007)..JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
23 May 2007
David Nicholls
Stonesby Quarry
16 May 2014
David Nicholls
Stonesby Quarry
16 May 2014
 Old Fosse Sapcote SP 5023 9277 (taken 23.5.2007)..JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Ground-ivy
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Lamiales
- Family:
- Lamiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 623
- First record:
- 01/07/1998 (John Mousley)
- Last record:
- 14/06/2025 (Nicholls, David)
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AJ Cann
Muston Meadows
26 April 2015 Old Fosse Sapcote SP 5023 9277 (taken 23.5.2007).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
23 May 2007
David Nicholls
Wirlybones Wood
30 March 2012
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
13 April 2011
David Nicholls
Gilroes Cemetery
06 May 2012
HAPeacock
Gilroes Cemetery
24 April 2012
HAPeacock
Gilroes Cemetery
24 April 2012
HAPeacock
Gilroes Cemetery
24 April 2012
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
08 May 2012
David Nicholls
Wirlybones Wood
05 May 2012
Alan Semper
Harby Stathern Lane verge
13 April 2012
HAPeacock
The Orchards
19 June 2012
Barbara Cooper
Holwell
15 April 2013
Graham Calow
Sharnford
29 April 2013
Graham Calow
Sapcote
04 May 2013
Alan Semper
Muston, roadside
06 April 2014
Lostash
Whetstone Fields
15 May 2014
 Old Fosse Sapcote SP 5023 9277 (taken 23.5.2007).JPG)
Liposthenes glechomae
Liposthenes glechomae is a cynipid gall wasp that causes galls to form on Ground-ivy. The galls are globular hairy swellings on the undersides of leaves or apparent on both sides of the stem. They are green or reddish in sunlight, soft at first becoming hard and containing a white larva.
It is a unisexual species, with males rare or absent; the females reproduce by parthenogenesis.