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Lamium purpureum grows with square stems to 5–20 centimetres (2–8 in), [4] rarely 40 cm, in height. [5] The leaves have fine hairs, are green at the bottom and shade to purplish at the top; they are 2–4 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and broad, with a 1–2 cm petiole (leaf stalk), and wavy to serrated margins.
Lamium maculatum (also known as spotted dead-nettle, [2] spotted henbit [3] and purple dragon) is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native throughout Europe and temperate Asia (Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, western China).
The common name "dead-nettle" has been derived from the German Taubnessel ("deaf nettle", or "nettle without a kernel"), [11] and refers to the resemblance of Lamium album [12] to the very distantly related stinging nettles, but unlike those, they do not have stinging hairs and so are harmless or apparently "dead".
Pink, white, or purple flowers appear in late spring. Dead nettle, also called lamium, prefers shade but will tolerate some sun, as well as well-drained, loamy, acidic soil. This hardy perennial ...
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Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle; dead nettle, dumb nettle Lamium, particularly Lamium album; false nettle – Boehmeria; flame nettle – Coleus; hedge nettle – Stachys; hemp nettle – Galeopsis; horse nettle: Agastache urticifolia – horse-nettle; Solanum carolinense – ball-nettle, Carolina ...
Appearance: Horse nettle is a native, warm-season perennial herb that can grow either erect or sprawling. It has prickles along the stems and leaves. It has prickles along the stems and leaves.
Cut-leaved dead-nettle in Liverpool; note the deeply incised leaves. It is a low-growing annual plant growing to 10–40 cm (3.9–15.7 in) tall, pubescent with soft, finely hairy stems. The leaves are opposite, rounded to kidney-shaped, 2–3 cm (0.79–1.18 in) diameter, with a deeply lobed to incised margin.