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Lamium purpureum
Also called Purple deadnettle, Purple Dead Nettle, Red Archangel, Purple Archangel, Red Henbit, Purple Henbit, Red Deadnettle
Red dead-nettle is a low, annual mint-family weed with purplish leaves and bright red-purple flowers, common in meadows, roadsides and gardens. It is an easy plant to grow from seed and flowers much of the year.
Lamium purpureum (from Latin purpureus 'purple'), known as red dead-nettle, purple dead-nettle, or purple archangel, is an annual herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family (Lamiaceae). It is native to Eurasia but can also be found in North America.
Lamium purpureum is native and relatively common to Europe (including Britain and Ireland) and Asia but it can also be found in North America: especially in the western and eastern United States, and Canada. It frequently occurs in meadows, forest edges, roadsides and gardens.
Young plants have edible tops and leaves, which can be used in salads or stir-fried as a spring vegetable. When finely chopped, they can also be added to sauces. The flowers can be crystallized using sugar and egg white.
Henbit deadnettle · Yellow Archangel · Spotted Dead-nettle · Deadnettle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lamium purpureum 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.
