North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, and Trees

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Lamiaceae > Lamium (deadnettle)

Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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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