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Lamium galeobdolon
Also called Golden Archangel, Golden Dead Nettle, Yellow Dead Nettle
A low, spreading perennial in the mint family with yellow hooded flowers, native to Europe and western Asia and widely grown or naturalised elsewhere. It is tough and fast-spreading, so it suits ground cover in shade more than a tidy border.
Lamium galeobdolon, the yellow archangel, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. It is native to Europe and western Asia but it is widely introduced in North America and elsewhere. It is the only species in the genus Lamium with yellow flowers. Another common name for this species is golden dead-nettle. In New Zealand, it is called the aluminium plant or artillery plant. The common names archangel and dead-nettle have been in use for hundreds of years, dating back to at least the 16th century.
Lamium galeobdolon comprises four closely related subspecies that are sometimes considered to be four separate species, one of which, the variegated yellow archangel (Lamium galeobdolon subsp.
Lamium galeobdolon sensu lato is native across Europe, western Asia, and portions of the Middle East. It ranges from Ireland and Spain eastward across Europe as far as the West Siberian Plain and southeastward to Iran. Subspecies flavidum is native to the Alps, northern Italy, and the mountain ranges northeast of the Adriatic Sea. The two subspecies galeobdolon and montanum have broadly similar distributions, but the latter extends further west and south than subspecies galeobdolon, which itself has a more northeast distribution. Within Britain and Ireland, subspecies montanum is widespread across England and Wales and locally in southern Scotland and eastern Ireland, while subspecies galeobdolon is restricted to a small area in Lincolnshire in eastern England.
Henbit deadnettle · Spotted Dead-nettle · Red Dead-nettle · Deadnettle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lamium galeobdolon 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.
