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Lamium purpureum (from Latin purpureum – purple), known as red dead-nettle, [2] purple dead-nettle, or purple archangel, [3] is an annual herbaceous flowering plant. It is native to Eurasia but can also be found in North America.
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".
Lamium amplexicaule, commonly known as henbit dead-nettle, [2] is a species of Lamium native to the Old World. The specific name refers to the leaves, which are amplexicaul (clasping the stem). Description
The Lamiaceae (/ ˌ l eɪ m i ˈ eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ / LAY-mee-AY-see-ee, -eye) [3] or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle, or sage family. . Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil, mint, rosemary, sage, savory, marjoram, oregano, hyssop, thyme, lavender, and perilla, as well as other ...
Plants called "nettle" include: ball nettle – Solanum carolinense; bull nettle Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle; Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle; Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle; Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle; dead nettle, dumb nettle Lamium, particularly Lamium album
Urtica dioica, often known as common nettle, burn nettle, stinging nettle (although not all plants of this species sting) or nettle leaf, or just a nettle or stinger, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Urticaceae. Originally native to Europe, much of temperate Asia and western North Africa, [2] it is now found worldwide.
Lamium hybridum, the cut-leaved dead-nettle, [1] is a species of Lamium native to western and northern Europe and northwestern Africa. [2] The specific name means ' hybrid '; however, Dominique Villars , in describing the species, did not give his reasons for selecting this name.