Dracocephalum moldavica

Dracocephalum moldavica, the Moldavian dragonhead,^[2] is an annual herbaceous plant. The first formal botanical description of D. moldavica was by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum 2:595. 1753.^[2]

Moldavian dragonhead
Dracocephalum moldavica, figure from Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen by Johann Georg Sturm (1796)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Genus:	Dracocephalum
Species:	D. moldavica
Binomial name
Dracocephalum moldavica L.[2]

Distribution

Although there is no precise accounting of its native range, Dracocephalum moldavica is known to be native to the temperate climate of Asia; in China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Xinjiang and Shanxi provinces); Russia (Primorsky Krai; eastern and western Siberia); Tajikistan; and Turkmenistan.^[2] It has become naturalized in many locales in Eurasia, and is also cultivated elsewhere as a garden ornamental.^[2]

Dracocephalum moldavica is an introduced plant to diverse parts of the United States, and is now present in Connecticut, Nebraska, Vermont, and Wisconsin.^[3]