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Lamium album
Also called White deadnettle, White Nettle, White Henbit
White dead-nettle is a hardy, spreading perennial in the mint family that grows wild across Eurasia on moist, fertile soil. It is a weedy groundcover rather than a garden showpiece, and its key to growing is to give it moist, rich soil in partial shade.
Lamium album, commonly called white dead-nettle, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native throughout Europe and Asia, growing in a variety of habitats from open grassland to woodland, generally on moist, fertile soils.
L. album is native to Eurasia, from Ireland in the west to Japan in the east. It has three subspecies, subsp. album in the western part of the range, subsp. crinitum in the southern part in southwest Asia (Turkey to Nepal), and subsp. barbatum in the far east of mainland Asia and in Japan. It is common in England, rare in the west and northern Scotland, and introduced to eastern Ireland. It is abundant in the British Isles, where it is found on roadsides, around hedges, and in abandoned places.
Henbit deadnettle · Lamium bifidum · Lamium coutinhoi · Yellow Archangel · Monte Gargano Dead Nettle · Cut-leaved Dead-nettle · Spotted Dead-nettle · Lamium multifidum · Balm Leaved Archangel · Red Dead-nettle · Deadnettle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lamium album by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
