Scientific Name:	Lamium purpureum
Pronunciation:	LAY-mee-um pur-PUR-ee-um
Common Name:	purple deadnettle
Family Name:	Lamiaceae
Plant Type:	Invasive plant, Annual
Key ID Features:	Invasive ground cover when escaped from containers; leaves opposite, mostly ovate, toothed, pubescent, and variegated with silver; yellow florets in whorls at nodes.
Course(s):	not used (on campus)

Habit: Spreading Form: Creeping / Mat-like Texture: Medium - fine Mature Size: Height: 0.4 - 0.7m Spread: Growth Rate: Fast Origin: Europe Hardiness Rating: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 C) Exposure: Deep shade, Filtered shade, Part sun/part shade Soil/ Growing Medium: Humus rich, Well-drained Water Use: Low, Moderate Landscape Uses: Container planting Additional Info: Google

Leaf Morphology: Glossary Form: Simple Arrangement: Opposite Texture/ Venation: Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Soft flexible Surfaces: Pubescent, Rugose Colour in Summer: Silver / Grayish, Green Leaf(let) Terms: Shapes: Deltoid, Ovate, Rhomboidal Apices: Acute Bases: Rounded Margins: Ciliate, Dentate

Inflorescence Type: Spike-like, Verticillaster Flower Morphology: Flowers perfect Number of Petals: 5 Corolla Shape: Bilabiate Ovary Position: Superior Colour (petals): Showy, Blue Flower Time at Peak: Apr, May, Jun

Fruit Type: Schizocarp Fruit Colour: Brown Fruiting Time: Additional Info: Not showy, Ovary separates into four tiny mericarps or "nutlets" that are enclosed in a persistent calyx

Bark Morphology: Smooth Bark or Stem Colour: Green Additional Info: ribbed     Organ Modifications: Rhizomes, Runners (or stolons)

Propagation:	Layering, Seed, Division - below ground parts
Pest Susceptibility:	Pest resistant, Disease resistant, Deer resistant, Rabbit resistant, Drought resistant

Location(s): (WDY) WeeDY location Location Map

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