| Scientific Name: | Lamium maculatum |
| Common Name: | spotted deadnettle, dead nettle |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Ground cover, Hanging basket, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Prickly, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Tomentose, Deltoid, Ovate, Crenate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, White, Violet, Purple, Pink, Magenta, Red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Green, Brown, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Invasive, stoloniferous perennial; leaves opposite, triangular to ovate, 2-4cm long x 1-3cm wide, pubescent, margins crenate, common cultivars have central silver or pinkish stripe or greyish mottling, petioles 1.5-3cm; flowers ~2cm long x 1cm wide, appear hooded. | |