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not marked as a favorite taxon *Lamium purpureum Linnaeus. Common name: Purple Archangel, Red Dead-nettle, Purple Dead-nettle. Phenology: (Jan)-Mar-Oct. Habitat: Lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, pastures. Distribution: Native of Eurasia. Only recently documented in the Coastal Plain of GA and in FL (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009; Wunderlin & Hansen 2008).

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Origin/Endemic status: Eurasia

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, Fl6, G, GrPl, Il, Mi, Mo3, NY, Pa, RAB, S, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3, WV; = Lamium purpureum L. var. purpureum — K4, NcTx, NE, Mennema (1989). Basionym: Lamium purpureum L. 1753

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image #1 of Lamium purpureum© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Lamium purpureum© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Lamium purpureum© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Lamium purpureum© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Lamium purpureum© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Lamium purpureum© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
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Intro: Sprawling to weakly erect annual of lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas and pastures. Native of Eurasia.

Stems: Stems 4-angled, hollow, sprawling at the base but erect above, often branched at the base and slightly hairy.

Leaves: Leaves opposite; lower leaves long-petioled, the pairs widely separated, round, to 2 in. long and bluntly toothed; upper leaves short-petioled, crowded, drooping, smaller, triangular and purplish; all leaves bristly-hairy.

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Flowers: Flowers clustered in upper axillary whorls of 3-6, each whorl underlain by leaf-like bracts; pink to purple; about 1/2 in. long; tubular and split into 2 lips, the upper one hooded and hairy and the lower lobed, paler and speckled with purple. The tubular-bell-shaped calyx has 5 teeth.

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Height: to 2 1/2 ft. (long)

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description: Sprawling to weakly erect annual of lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas and pastures. Native of Eurasia.

stems: Stems 4-angled, hollow, sprawling at the base but erect above, often branched at the base and slightly hairy.

leaves: Leaves opposite; lower leaves long-petioled, the pairs widely separated, round, to 2 in. long and bluntly toothed; upper leaves short-petioled, crowded, drooping, smaller, triangular and purplish; all leaves bristly-hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers clustered in upper axillary whorls of 3-6, each whorl underlain by leaf-like bracts; pink to purple; about 1/2 in. long; tubular and split into 2 lips, the upper one hooded and hairy and the lower lobed, paler and speckled with purple. The tubular-bell-shaped calyx has 5 teeth.

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