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Lamium purpureum (purple deadnettle; red deadnettle)

Synonyms: Lamiopsis purpurea (homotypic); Lamium foetidum; Lamium nudum; Lamium urticaefolium (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Lamium purpureum, known as red dead-nettle, purple dead-nettle, purple archangel, or velikdenche, is a herbaceous flowering plant native to Europe and Asia.
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Infraspecies

Lamium purpureum var. ehrenbergii
Lamium purpureum var. hybridum (purple deadnettle)
Lamium purpureum var. incisum
Lamium purpureum var. moluccellifolium
Lamium purpureum var. purpureum (purple deadnettle)

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Bats
Structure [4]  Herb
Height [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [2]  8 inches (0.2 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Neoerysiphe galeopsidis[7]
Peronospora lamii[8]
Ramularia lamiicola[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7Ecology of Commanster
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0