#lamium

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Golden Deaf Nettle (Lamium Galeobdolon)

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Lamium

by Louise Glück

This is how you live when you have a cold heart. As I do: in shadows, trailing over cool rock, under the great maple trees. The sun hardly touches me. Sometimes I see it in early spring, rising very far away. Then leaves grow over it, completely hiding it. I feel it glinting through the leaves, erratic, like someone hitting the side of a glass with a metal spoon. Living things don’t all require light in the same degree. Some of us make our own light: a silver leaf like a path no one can use, a shallow lake of silver in the darkness under the great maples. But you know this already. You and the others who think you live for truth and, by extension, love all that is cold.

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Falsa ortica macchiata (Lamium maculatum L., Lamiaceae)

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Wildflowers

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In Bloom

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Red Deadnettle Lamium purpureum Lamiaceae (Mint) Family

Photograph taken on May 7, 2026, at Point Pelee National Park, Leamington, Ontario, Canada.

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Plant of the Day

Sunday 9 June 2024

Providing early colour in an herbaceous border is Lamium orvala (balm-leaved red deadnettle, dragon flower, Hungary deadnettle). The clump-forming growth habit of this plant means it remains where it is placed and for best results it grows in a moist, well-drained soil in partial shade.

Jill Raggett

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#3753 - Lamium galeobdolon ssp. argentatum - Variegated Yellow Archangel 

A spillover from one of the private gardens adjacent to Woodhaugh, I think. Unfortunately it's quite invasive.

AKA golden dead-nettle, yellow weasel snout, and in New Zealand as aluminium plant or artillery plant. The common names archangel and dead-nettle date back to at least the 16th century. Archangel may have arisen from the rows of hooded flowers in the genus resembling a choir, and dead-nettle from the fact the leaves resemble true nettles but don't sting. They certainly stink if crushed, though, at least in this species - the trinomial comes from Greek and Latin, and means "silver-plated, weasel-stinking, gullet". It was originally described as Galeopsis galeobdolon by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, but he moved it to Lamium not long after. It has six other synonyms, however, and is often sold as Lamiastrum galeobdolon. Where it hasn't been banned entirely as a noxious weed, anyway.

The flowers (the only yellow ones in the genus) look like this -

Photo by light-up-gold on iNaturalist.

Originally native to central Europe, and now a problem in many other parts of the world.

Woodhaugh Gardens, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand