NameThatPlant.net: Lamium maculatum

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lamium maculatum FAMILY Lamiaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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Read more about Spotted Deadnettle at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lamium maculatum FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Lamium maculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Lamium maculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-19-XX:

Lamium maculatum FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Lamium maculatum

COMMON NAME:
Spotted Deadnettle

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image of Lamium maculatum, Spotted Deadnettle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_lama_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lamium maculatum FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lamium maculatum FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lamium maculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lamium maculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-19-XX:
Lamium maculatum FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lamium maculatum

3820

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Rare

map
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

Kentucky Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2013

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Purplish-pink (rarely white)
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower two-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

"Our Great-Aunt Narcissa ... knew the names of all the wild flowers and she taught the names of them all to us — the small blue anemone that bloomed in ravines in February, the first of our blossoms and the purest blue, the flower of faith, of new hope; the bloodroot, the May apple, the wild yellow azalea, the corpse flower, the trailing arbutus, the purple gentian — the last blossoms of the autumn, struggling to perfection in the last minutes of existence." — Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton

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