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Dead Nettle
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Dead Nettle (Lamium) - Perennial herbs of which there are a few plants occasionally worth a place in poor dry soils, where little else will grow-such as are found on dry banks or beneath trees. L.

 


Dead Nettle (Lamium maculatum)

There's nothing 'dead' about this beauty; the leaves of its many varieties have a silvery sheen that nearly glows in shade.

Purple Dead Nettle, Lamium purpureum
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Dead Nettle
Lamium maculatum
Lamium is an excellent ground cover perennial for shady areas, grown largely for its spreading foliage and colorful flowers.
About This Plant ...

Red Dead Nettle. Lamium purpureum Red Dead nettle Lamium purpureum Stinging Nettle. There have orange-yellow rootsThistle have long tap roots.

Our Dead Nettle (or Deadnettle) lives underneath a between fence & rainbarrel. It prefers part shade but will also survive in deep shade.

Free-blooming dead nettles enliven difficult places in sun or shade. From spring on, whorls of brightly colored two-lipped flowers bloom abundantly on square stems.

purple dead nettle Lamium purpureum
purple granadilla Passiflora edulis
purple loosestrife Lythrum salicaria
purple Mombin Spondias purpurea
purple rattlebox Sesbania punicea
purple willow; purple osier Salix purpurea ...

Lamium orvala ‘Dead nettle'
Lamiums may conjure up visions of over enthusiastic ground cover plants, but here is a Central European species that grows only into a neat, non-invasive clump.

The ornamental Lamiums go under the common name of Spotted Dead Nettles because the leaves are usually blotched with silver and they somewhat resemble the wild nettles. Among the ornamentals is L.

Foliage plants that have stripes or speckles, such as lungwort, hosta and dead nettle, tend to grow well in the shade and provide a striking interplay between light and dark.

Lamium maculatum (dead nettle) - red-purple flowers in summer. Height 20cm (8in), spread 1m (3¼ft)
Liriope muscari - evergreen, with violet-mauve flowers in early to late autumn. Height 30cm (12in), spread 45cm (18in) ...

The generic name of the Dead Nettles Lamium, is derived from the Greek word laimos (the throat), in allusion to the form of the blossom.
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NETTLE, PURPLE DEAD ...

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Lamium maculatum Spotted Dead Nettle
Marrubium incanum Silver Horehound *
Opuntia humifusa Prickly Pear
Ornamental Grasses
Phlomis fruticosa Jerusalem Sage *
Polygonatum species Solomon's Seal
Pulmonaria species Lungwort ...

Lamium maculatum [Spotted Dead Nettle] Common Name List
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Leucanthemum × superbum [Shasta Daisy] Common Name List
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Lithodora diffusa 'Grace Ward' [Grace Ward Lithodora] Common Name List ...

See also: Nettle, Lamium, Green, Grass, Geranium