Lamium maculatum 'White Nancy' (Spotted deadnettle)
Photo/Illustration: Jerry Pavia
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Lamium maculatum 'Pink Pewter' (Pink Pewter Dead Nettle) - A low growing, ...
Lamium (Deadnettle)
Marie Iannotti
Lamium would be my suggestion - especially the pink ones - they do spread and you will have a sea of pink on top of the white/green leaves - they last for quit a while and then will rebloom in the season.
Lamium album
( Album Deadnettle )
Vigorous perennial grown for its attractive, mid-green leaves zoned with silver markings. This shade-loving trailer is at home in the hanging basket or as a ground cover.
Lamium album (white dead-nettle)
The white dead-nettle has nettle shaped leaves that do not sting, and grows in woodlands and grasslands.
Close up of Lamium album (Image: Wolfgang Stuppy) ...
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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brillantaisia (Brillantaisia lamium) has relatively large leaves (up to 15 cm long and 7 cm wide) with broad (i.e. obtuse) or heart-shaped (i.e. cordate) bases. These leaves are green in colour and sparsely covered in long soft hairs (i.e.
Genus: Lamium
Description
General: annual from a short taproot, generally branched at
the base, the several weak stems creeping below. Herbage
inconspicuously stiff- or flat-hairy to almost hairless.
Lamium purpureum
Purple deadnettle leaves are often tinted with purple. It's debatable whether this plant should be considered a Connecticut wildflower, since it grows mostly in ground disturbed by humans, not in wild areas.
This patch of "White Nancy" Lamium, or Spotted Dead Nettle, is a cultivar of Lamium maculatum which is native of Europe & North America.
Lamium Galeobdolon (L.) L.
= Lamiastrum Galeobdolon (L.)Ehrend. & Polatschek
= Galeobdolon luteum Huds.
Lamium maculatum
Lamium is an excellent ground cover perennial for shady areas, grown largely for its spreading foliage and colorful flowers.
About This Plant
Lamium thrives in shade but will grow in sun when provided with moist soil conditions.
Lamium album (L)
Synonyms and Common names: Archangel, , white archangel, blind nettle, dumb nettle, deaf nettle, bee nettle
German = Weiss taubnessel, French = Ortie blanche, Italian = Lamio bianco ...
Lamium rhomboideum, Alajja afghanica, Erianthera rhomboidea
Lamiaceae
Alpine Deadnettle ...
Botanical: Lamium purpureum (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Labiatae
---Synonym---Purple Archangel.
The Purple Dead-Nettle is a common weed in cultivated ground and by waysides, found in the same spots as the other species, but less conspicuous.
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.
Deadnettle - Lamium
Henbit Deadnettle - Lamium amplexicaule
Devil's Bite - Veratrum viride
Devil's Darning Needle - Clematis virginiana
Devil's Hair - Clematis virginiana
Devil's Plague - Daucus carota
Dewberry ...
Red Deadnettle Lamium purpureum
Short-fruited Willow Herb Epilobium obscurum
Smooth Cat's-ear Hypochaeris glabra ...
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.
Unlike deadnettles (Lamium), stinging nettles (Urtica) have stinging hairs that make them quickly apparent to the gardener when weeding.
Goes well with: Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver', Pulmonaria officinalis 'Sissinghurst White', Heuchera micrantha var. diversifolia 'Palace Purple', Hemerocallis 'Cartwheels', Iris germanica, Sisyrinchium striatum.
Similar Plants: ...
Lamio blanco - Lamium album
Lamio purpúreo - Lamium purpureum
Lamparones - Xanthium strumarium
Lampazo - Rumex crispus
Lampazo acuático - Rumex aquaticus
Lampazo mayor - Arctium lappa
Lámpsana - Lapsana communis
Lantana - Lantana camara ...
Brillantaisia guianensis, Leucorhaphis lamium, Brillantaisia nitens (Tropical Giant Salvia, Family: Acanthaceae)
Broussonetia papyrifera, Morus papyrifera (Paper Mulberry, Family: Moraceae) ...
Variegated False Lamium [English]: Lamiastrum galeobdolon 'Variegatum'
variegated Fan Ivy [English]: Hedera helix 'Nena'
Variegated Feather Reed Grass [English]: Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Overdam' ...
henbit Lamium amplexicaule
Henry's crabgrass Digitaria ciliaris
herb Robert, red robin Geranium robertianum
herbaceous glorytree Tibouchina herbacea
hierba del soldado Melochia umbellata
hilograss Paspalum conjugatum ...
In Labiate plants, as the dead-nettle (Lamium), the flowers are produced in the axil of each of the foliage leaves of the plant, and they appear as if arranged in a simple whorl of flowers.
Deadnettle (Lamium maculatum 'Pink Pewter')
Deadnettle (Lamium maculatum)
Decorative Dahlia (Dahlia 'Color Spectacle')
Deep Red Chinese Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'Diamond Head')
Deerhorn Cedar (Thujopsis dolabrata) ...
Garden thug: Spotted deadnettle (Lamium maculatum)
Cultivated cousin: L. m. 'Aureum'
Family differences: ...
Lamium is an old Latin name of a nettle-like
plant mentioned by Pliny. The family is noted for its fragrant oils (lavender,
rosemary, mint, horehound, thyme etc). Monarda is a North American genus of ...
Other wonderful perennials are not far behind, including the likes of the ajugas, solomons seal, pulmonarias, ferns, and lamiums. My favorite of this group must be the variegated solomons seal (Polygonatum odoratum Variegatum).
"Lamiastrum" is botanical Latin for "resembling Lamium".
There are 2 varieties commonly encountered":
- 'Herman's Pride' has a more upright growth habit.
- 'Variegatum' is used as a ground cover ...
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 ...
They also vary in their heights, from low growing 4 inch creeping ground cover plants such as Lamium to the giant 8 foot heads of pampas grass.
Myxocarpy, the nutlets producing mucilage and so adhering to their disperser, is common in Nepetoideae (Pammel 1892; Ryding 1992), while large genera like Lamium (Lamioideae) and Teucrium (Ajugoideae) have myrmecochorous nutlets ...
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, Green, May, Grass, Pink
  
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