Scientific Name: Lamium galeobdolon 'Variegatum'
Common Name: lamium, variegated yellow archangel
Family Name: Lamiaceae
Origin: Central / west Asia, Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant, Semi-evergreen
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Creeping / Mat-like
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Container planting
Exposure: Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Rugose, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Deltoid, Ovate, Ciliate, Crenate, Dentate
Flowers: Verticillaster, Yellow, Apr-May-Jun
Fruit: Schizocarp, Brown, Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Invasive ground cover when escaped from containers; leaves opposite, most blades ovate, 4-7cm long x 2-6cm wide, toothed, pubescent, and variegated with silver; florets hooded, yellow, in whorls at nodes.