Lamium maculatum: Flower Description
Lavender flowers with upper and lower petal-like lip
Plant Profile: Lamium maculatum
Taxonomy: Lamium maculatumNames
Dead Nettle, Lamium, Spotted Dead Nettle
Phonetic Spelling:LAY-mee-um mak-yoo-LAH-tum
Genus:Lamium
Species:maculatum
Family:Lamiaceae
Rapidly expanding, the Spotted Dead Nettle serves as an excellent ground cover for damp, shaded locations. Its opposite leaves exhibit a silvery green hue adorned with prominent silver patches on the top side, brightening up otherwise dark, shadowy spaces.
Lamium maculatum Feature Summary
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#evergreen
#HS302
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Lamium maculatum Feature Summary
Flowers
Lavender flowers with upper and lower petal-like lip
Pink
Purple/Lavender
Spring
Summer
Leaves
Variegated foliage; 1" crinkled leaves with rounded teeth; unpleasantly tented when crushed. The opposite leaves are silvery green with large silver blotches on the upper surface.
Green
Gray/Silver
Variegated
Opposite
Sinuate
1-3 inches
Attributes
Whole Plant Traits
Cultural Conditions
Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours)
Good Drainage
Coastal
Mountains
Piedmont
4a
4b
5b
5a
6a
6b
7a
7b
8b
8a
3a
3b
Stem
Lamium maculatum Image Gallery
Lamium maculatum Flowers
Lamium maculatum: Flower Color
Pink
Purple/Lavender
Lamium maculatum: Flower Bloom Time
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
Lamium maculatum Leaves
Lamium maculatum: Leaf Description
Variegated foliage; 1" crinkled leaves with rounded teeth; unpleasantly tented when crushed. The opposite leaves are silvery green with large silver blotches on the upper surface.
Lamium maculatum: Leaf Color
Gray/Silver
Green
Variegated
Lamium maculatum: Leaf Arrangement
Alternate
Opposite
Other/more complex
Rosulate
Whorled
Lamium maculatum: Leaf Margin
Crenate
Crenulate
Dentate
Denticulate
Doubly Crenate
Doubly Dentate
Doubly Serrate
Entire
Lobed
Serrate
Sinuate
Undulate
Lamium maculatum: Hairs Present
No
Yes
Lamium maculatum: Leaf Length
< 1 inch
1-3 inches
3-6 inches
> 6 inches
Lamium maculatum Attributes
Lamium maculatum: Recommended Propagation Strategy
Division
Grafting
Layering
Leaf Cutting
Root Cutting
Seed
Stem Cutting
Lamium maculatum Whole Plant Traits
Lamium maculatum: Plant Type
Annual
Bulb
Carnivorous
Edible
Epiphyte
Fern
Ground Cover
Herb
Herbaceous Perennial
Houseplant
Mushroom
Native Plant
Ornamental Grasses and Sedges
Perennial
Poisonous
Rose
Shrub
Succulent
Tree
Turfgrass
Vegetable
Vine
Water Plant
Weed
Wildflower
Lamium maculatum: Habit/Form
Arching
Ascending
Broad
Cascading
Climbing
Clumping
Columnar
Conical
Creeping
Dense
Erect
Horizontal
Irregular
Mounding
Multi-stemmed
Multi-trunked
Open
Oval
Prostrate
Pyramidal
Rounded
Spreading
Vase
Weeping
Lamium maculatum: Growth Rate
Slow
Medium
Rapid
Lamium maculatum: Texture
Fine
Medium
Coarse
Lamium maculatum Cultural Conditions
Lamium maculatum: Light
Dappled Sunlight (Shade through upper canopy all day)
Deep shade (Less than 2 hours to no direct sunlight)
Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day)
Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours)
Lamium maculatum: Soil Drainage
Frequent Standing Water
Good Drainage
Moist
Occasional Flooding
Occasionally Dry
Occasionally Wet
Very Dry
Lamium maculatum: NC Region
Coastal
Mountains
Piedmont
Lamium maculatum: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone
3a
3b
4a
4b
5a
5b
6a
6b
7a
7b
8a
8b
Lamium maculatum Stem
Lamium maculatum: Stem Is Aromatic
No
Yes
