White Deadnettle (Lamium flexuosum flexuosum)
Description
Lamium album, commonly called white nettle or white dead-nettle, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native throughout Europe and Asia, growing in a variety of habitats from open grassland to woodland, generally on moist, fertile soils. L. album is an herbaceous perennial plant growing to 50-100 cm (20-39 in) tall, with green, four-angled stems. The leaves are 3-8 cm (1.2-3.1 in) long and 2-5 cm (0.79-1.97 in) broad, triangular with a rounded base, softly hairy, and with a serrated margin and a petiole up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long; like many other members of the Lamiaceae, they appear superficially similar to those of the Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) but do not sting, hence the common name "dead-nettle". The flowers are white, produced in whorls ('verticillasters') on the upper part of the stem, the individual flowers 1.5-2.5 cm (0.59-0.98 in) long. The flowers are visited by many types of insects, but mostly by bees.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Lamiales
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Family: Lamiaceae
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Genus: Lamium
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