Purple Dead-Nettle
Scientific Name: Lamium purpureum
Mint family (square stems, opposite leaves, and two-lipped, open-mouthed, tubular flowers). Stems hollow. Native to Europe and Asia.
Purple Dead-Nettle
Scientific Name: Lamium purpureum
Purple Dead-Nettle
| Genus species: | Lamium purpureum | |||||||||||
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| Common Name: | Purple Dead-Nettle | |||||||||||
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae 
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, the stems square, and foliage often aromatic; leaves opposite, simple; flowers bisexual, mostly irregular, the corolla frequently 2-lipped; fruit splitting into 4 nutlets. | |||||||||||
| Seed Type | Angiosperm | |||||||||||
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Nonnative | |||||||||||
| Category: | Wildflower | |||||||||||
| Flower Color: | Violet/Blue Pink/Red | |||||||||||
| Identified by: | A. Swanson | |||||||||||
| Months in Bloom The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicates the month(s) the plant has been observed blooming. | ||||||||||||
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