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Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule) Lawn on Duke University campus in Durham Co., NC 22 Mar 2009 Native to the old world, this introduced species is common statewide in North Carolina in various weedy, disturbed places from lawns to roadsides to fields, etc. | |
Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule) Lawn on Duke University campus in Durham Co., NC 22 Mar 2009 Floral tube fairly straight and pinkish-purple. | |
Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule) Lawn on Duke University campus in Durham Co., NC 22 Mar 2009 Lower petal (lip) with a few spots and lateral teeth. | |
Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule) Lawn on Duke University campus in Durham Co., NC 22 Mar 2009 Lower leaves have stalks (petioles) but upper leaves are sessile and clasping. | |
Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule) Lawn on Duke University campus in Durham Co., NC 22 Mar 2009 |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.
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