Distribution: Throughout most of North America.
Habitat: Purple Dead Nettle is a weedy species found in empty lots, fields, and along roadsides.
Flowering period: April to October.
Lucas Land
Purple Dead Nettle
Lamium purpureum
from Nearctica
Alien: Native of Europe.
Identification: Flowers light purple to violet. Lower petal lobe narrow at the base, expanding into a broad, bilobed apex and spotted with dark purple. Upper petal lobe concave, helmet-shaped. Opening between upper and lower petal lobes large, open. Calyx with large, elongate bristles. Flowers arranged in whorls in the leaf axils. Stem square and weakly hairy. Leaves heart-shaped, crowded, often overlaping each other. Outer margin strongly dentate and surface of leaf reticulate. Plant 4 to 12 inches in height.