Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lamium purpureum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Read more about Purple Deadnettle at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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
COMMON NAME:
Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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Gill Newberry gn03_l_purpureum_inf_2
March
Corolla 2-lipped: upper hoodlike, lower with 2 lateral lobes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0403k_02
March Greenville County SC
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Keith Bradley kab_lamium_purpureum_1905
March Polk County NC
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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.
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Tim Spira tpslpurpurea80
March
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Gill Newberry gn04_l_purpureum_habitat
April
Whorls of flowers subtended by petioled, reflexed leaves, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0304o_11
April Greenville County SC
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm0404c_14
April Haywood County NC
Roadside
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Keith Bradley kab_l_purpureum_73365
May NC
Pisgah National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm201027_7975
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
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
793
Forb
Winter annual
Non-native: Eurasia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Look for it in lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, pastures, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Purplish
Bisexual
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
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p086
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p150
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p324
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p081
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p221
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p262
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p145
- Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p132