Seasonal Wild Flowers

White Dead-nettle

Lamium album

Lamiaceae

White Archangel, (Adam-and-Eve-in-the Bower, Blind

Nettle, Dead Nettle and Dumb Nettle.

White Dead-nettle flowers mainly from March to November

but all year, including Jamuary, in mild winters.

It is found throughout the country, although it seems

slightly less common in the North.

See the BSBI distribution map for White Dead-nettle

It is an archeophyte which grows in rough ground,

hedges and woodland and by roads and footpaths.

White Dead-nettle is native, hairy, perennial herb that

spreads by rhizomes and stolons to form clumps up

to 60cm.

Flowers are white, both tubular and bell-shaped, and

occur in whorls up the stem.

The hairy, hood petal overtops the flower.

The stamens are side by side inside the hood.

The lower petals have pale yellow markings.

Sepals are long and pointed.

The leaves resembles stinging nettles in appearance,

but without the sting.

White Dead-nettle in a hedge

Whorl of flowers

View from below - stamens and anthers

Close-up of stamens and anthers

Side view of flower - hairy hood and lower lobes

Close-up of pointed calyx

Nettle-like leaves