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Lamiaceae
Purple dead-nettle
Lamium purpureum
Also known as Blind nettle, Red dead-nettle, Lamiopsis purpurea, Purple archangel
Native Plants · Edibles & Herbs · Dead Nettle · Annual · Self Seeding · Early Bloomer · Purple Flowers · Ground Cover · Edible · Medicinal · Weedy
Purple dead-nettle is an incredibly adaptable annual that self-seeds readily in various conditions. It requires virtually no care once established and provides early nectar for bees when few other flowers are available. This low-growing plant makes excellent ground cover in wild or naturalized areas.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Light to moderate watering, tolerates both moist and dry conditions · Every 5-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 7–7.5
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 5 ft
- Spread
- 16 in
- Spacing
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Arkansas, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Colorado
- Attracts
- Bees
Sources: trefle, usda
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