Self-Heal

yeah, they are great! you have some pics about your carpenter bees? love them! and they protect roses from illnesses.

The bees love my lavender, but the color of the flower is different. Yours has a darker maroon center than the lavenders I have. Just the shape of the flowers are similar. Sounds like a great plant, very helpful information!

they are both Lamiaceae - but this is definitely a Nepetoideae family member... Prunella it is most likely to be

U are welcome, and as the name implies, they do have a medical benefit: I was told (naturally grandma told me about it, that they used it, when she was a kid) that this plant is good for intestinal disease, diarrhea, jaundice, bad wound healing and anaemia. Not quite sure if that all is true... Wikipedia says: Heal-all is both edible and medicinal. It can be used in salads, soups, stews, or boiled as a pot herb. It has been used as an alternative medicine for centuries on just about every continent in the world ( asia mostly), and for just about every ailment, Heal-All is something of a panacea, it does seem to have some medicinal uses that are constant. The plant's most useful constituents are betulinic acid, D-camphor, delphinidin, hyperoside, manganese, oleanolic acid, rosmarinic acid, rutin, ursolic acid, and tannins. The whole plant is medicinal as alterative, antibacterial, antipyretic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, antiviral, astringent, carminative, diuretic, febrifuge, hypotensive, stomachic, styptic, tonic, vermifuge and vulnerary. It is taken internally as a medicinal tea in the treatment of fevers, diarrhoea, sore mouth and throat, internal bleeding, and weaknesses of the liver and heart. Clinical analysis shows it to have an antibacterial action, inhibiting the growth of pseudomonas, Bacillus typhi, E. coli, Mycobacterium tuberculi, which supports its use as an alternative medicine internally and externally as an antibiotic and for hard to heal wounds and diseases.

It looks like a type of lavender flower.

take a look at my spottings: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6416344 and http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6584073