Seasonal Wild Flowers

Spotted Dead-nettle

Lamium maculatum

Lamiaceae

March to October and year round during mild winters.

It grows in the Northwest, the west Midlands and central

southern counties.

See the BSBI distribution map for Spotted Dead-nettle

It is a neophyte and a garden escape since the 1730s.

Iit is naturalised in hedges, wasteland and brownfield sites,

and by paths and roads.

Spotted Dead-nettle is a perennial, smelly herb that

spreads using rhizomes and stolons to form patches,

and grows up to 39cm.

Flowers are deep pink.

Leaves are a dark, mat green and heart-shaped with

a distinct white stripe.

Amongst stinging nettles by the Lune estuary

Single plant - leaves with white stripes

Side view of flower

View - looking into the flower