Irish wildflowers sitemap


Photographs: UK

White Dead-nettle
Lamium album
Caochneantóg bhán
Family: Lamiaceae

Flowering time: May-November. Perennial. Introduced.

White flowers, 2-lipped in dense whorls. Upper lip long, hairy.
Leaves nettle-like but stingless, pointed, coarse-toothed.
Height: 20-60cm.

Fertile waste ground, roadsides, hedgebanks, open woodland. Often found near habitation. Locally frequent, mainly E, NE Ireland.

     
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