Purple Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in Oak Savanna (5/02/19).
Purple Dead-Nettles - Lamium purpureum
The most distinctive characteristic of Purple Dead Nettle is the purple tint of the young leaves at the top part of the stem.
The leaves have fine hairs, are green at the bottom and shade to purplish at the top.
The flowers are bright red-purple, with a top hood-like petal, two lower lip petal lobes and minute fang-like lobes between.
Purple Dead-Nettles were introduced to Wisconsin. They are considered an adventive species. An adventive species is a species that has arrived in a new locality. It may have had help from humans as an introduced species or it may not.
Other Names: red dead-nettle, purple archangel. Lamium: the ancient Latin name for the mints.
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in E. Ray Stevens Pond and Aquatic Gardens area in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin on April 28, 2019.
For more information on Purple Dead-nettle visit Wikipedia.
Or, visit the UW-Madison Wisconsin Herbarium online virtual flora website page on Purple Dead-Nettle.
Or, visit the UW-Madison Wisconsin Master Gardener website page on Spotted Dead-Nettle.
Purple (Red) Dead-nettle
Lamium purpureum
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in E. Ray Stevens Pond and Aquatic Gardens area in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin (4/24/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in the U.W. Arboretum Oak Savanna after a light snow in Madison, Wisconsin (4/28/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in E. Ray Stevens Pond and Aquatic Gardens area in the U.W. Arboretum after a light snow fall in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/28/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in Oak Savanna in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/29/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in E. Ray Stevens Pond and Aquatic Gardens area in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/29/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in E. Ray Stevens Pond and Aquatic Gardens area in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/30/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in Oak Savanna in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/30/19).
Above: in E. Ray Stevens Pond and Aquatic Gardens area in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (5/03/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in Oak Savanna in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (5/03/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in Oak Savanna in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (5/11/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in Oak Savanna in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (5/12/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in Oak Savanna in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (5/14/19).
Above: Purple Dead-Nettles in Oak Savanna in the U.W. Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/17/21).
Above: Spotted Dead-Nettles near Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin. (5/02/19)
Above: Spotted Dead-Nettles near Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin. (5/8/19).
Above: Spotted Dead-Nettles near Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin. (4/17/21)
Above: Spotted Dead-Nettles near Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin. (5/8/19).
