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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lamium purpureum   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lamium purpureum var. purpureum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-19-002:

Lamium purpureum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

Lamium purpureum

 

COMMON NAME:
Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel


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image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

Gill Newberry    gn03_l_purpureum_inf_2

March        

Corolla 2-lipped: upper hoodlike, lower with 2 lateral lobes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

JK Marlow    jkm0403k_02

March    Greenville County    SC

image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

Keith Bradley    kab_lamium_purpureum_1905

March    Polk County    NC

image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_l_purpureum_1

March        AL-GA

Pinhoti Trail

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Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_l_purpureum_1b

March        AL-GA

Pinhoti Trail

Leaves heart-shaped with coarse rounded teeth, petioled, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

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Tim Spira    tpslpurpurea80

March        

image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

Gill Newberry    gn04_l_purpureum_habitat

April        

Whorls of flowers subtended by petioled, reflexed leaves, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

JK Marlow    jkm0304o_11

April    Greenville County    SC

image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

JK Marlow    jkm0404b_27b

April    Haywood County    NC

Roadside

Leaves concentrated on upper stem where they are strongly tinged with purple, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

JK Marlow    jkm0404c_14

April    Haywood County    NC

Roadside

image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

Keith Bradley    kab_l_purpureum_73365

May        NC

Pisgah National Forest

image of Lamium purpureum, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel

JK Marlow    jkm201027_7975

October    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lamium purpureum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lamium purpureum var. purpureum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-19-002:
Lamium purpureum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

793

Forb
Winter annual

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

Non-native: Eurasia

Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)

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Invasive?

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

 

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Purplish
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:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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