Glechoma hederaceaL.

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WFO wfo-0000972872 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Glechoma hederacea, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. a Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205692637
Glechoma hederacea, photographed by Jean Sorensen
fig. b Jean Sorensen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205853704
Glechoma hederacea, photographed by Sheelagh Halsey
fig. c Sheelagh Halsey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205563983
Glechoma hederacea, photographed by Ethan Rose
fig. d Ethan Rose, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205035323
Glechoma hederacea, photographed by cgmayers
fig. e cgmayers, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205397029
Glechoma hederacea, photographed by Bruce Cook
fig. f Bruce Cook, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204716436
Glechoma hederacea, photographed by Glenn Berry
fig. g Glenn Berry, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204734185
Glechoma hederacea, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. h Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205033252

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 16,493 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 16,493 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 43 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calamintha hederacea (L.) Scop.
  • Chamaecissos hederaceus (L.) Nieuwl. & Lunell
  • Chamaeclema hederacea (L.) Moench
  • Glechoma borealis Salisb.
  • Glechoma bulgarica Borbás
  • Glechoma hederacea f. rosea Neuman
  • Glechoma hederacea f. verticillata Bolzon
  • Glechoma hederacea subsp. glabriuscula (Neilr.) Gams
  • Glechoma hederacea subsp. serbica (Halácsy & Wettst.) Soó
  • Glechoma hederacea unranked brevipetiolatum Kuntze
  • Glechoma hederacea unranked microcalyx Kuntze
  • Glechoma hederacea unranked variegata Abbey
  • Glechoma hederacea unranked villosa Kuntze
  • Glechoma hederacea var. breviflora Coss. & Germ.
  • Glechoma hederacea var. glabriuscula Neilr.
  • Glechoma hederacea var. grandiflora Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Glechoma hederacea var. grandifolia Gray
  • Glechoma hederacea var. heterophylla (Opiz) Lej. & Courtois
  • Glechoma hederacea var. hirsuta Coss. & Germ.
  • Glechoma hederacea var. humilior Klett & Richt.
  • Glechoma hederacea var. magna (Mérat) DC.
  • Glechoma hederacea var. major Gaudin
  • Glechoma hederacea var. micrantha (Boenn. ex Rchb.) Nyman
  • Glechoma hederacea var. micrantha P.Fourn.

and 19 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.