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All about Fifty coinage, including: Lamium album (White Deadnettle) Lamium amplexicaule (Henbit Deadnettle) Lamium hybridum (Cut-leaf Deadnettle) Lamium maculatum (Spotted Deadnettle) Lamium purpureum (Red Deadnettle)

A deadnettles, genus Lamium, comprise a nature and severity genus of the plant family Lamiaceae. It is completely herbaceous plants native to Europe, but many use at times get super successful weeds of crop fields and come currently widely naturalized through a moderate globe.

A genus includes each annual and perennial species; they spread by two seeds and stems rooting as it develop along a ground.

A most common title refers to their superficial resemblance to the unrelated stinging nettles, but unlike victims, it don't use at times stinging hairs so come harmless or even apparently "dead".

Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule) is native to southern Europe, and naturalised in eastern North America and elsewhere. It flowers super early inside a spring potentially around northern areas, & for virtually all of a wintertime & the early spring in warmly areas like the Mediterranean and where naturalized in the south-east US. It propagates freely by seed and is regarded as a minor weed. Every now and again entire fields is reddish-purple using its bloom prior to spring cultivation. In which green, is an significant nectar and pollen plant for bees, especially honeybees, where it assists run a spring buildup.

Many closely related genera come involved inside Lamium by a bit of botanists, including Lamiastrum (Yellow Archangel), Galeopsis (hemp-nettles) and Leonurus (motherworts).

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Lamium
description, horticultural data, distribution, and cultivars

Lamium purpureum page
Description, photos, distribution, and habitat.

Lamium amplexicaule
Photo of Lamium amplecicaule or henbit

Dead Nettle, Spotted Nettle (Lamium maculatum)
Dead Nettle, Spotted Nettle (Lamium maculatum)photo and horticultural data

Lamium galeobdolon @ Flora.cyberia
Photo of Lamium galeobdolon

Lamium confertum :: Flora of Northern Ireland web site
photoand regional distribution






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