Red Dead-nettle - Lamium purpureum
Low to short, often purplish, hairy and aromatic plant. Square stemmed. Leaves oval, blunt toothed, stalked, the lower bracts longer than wide. Flowers pinkish purple 10 to 18 mm long with a straight corolla tube.
Cut-leaved dead-nettle (Lamium hybridum)
Leaves under flower head serrate or crenate, but never deeply cut
Cultivated and waste land. A frequent weed of gardens.
March to December.
Annual.
Very common throughout Britain.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 493 of the 617 tetrads.
David Nicholls
Aylestone Meadows
18 May 2013
Melinda Bell
Heather, footpath past fishing lake
23 March 2021
Mike Higgott
County Hall
29 March 2018
leaves becoming red
David Nicholls
Wirlybones Wood
30 March 2012
David Nicholls
Ratby
30 March 2014
Graham Calow
Cotes De Val, Lutterworth A426
08 April 2021
compared to other nettle leaves
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
01 April 2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Red Dead-nettle
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Lamiales
- Family:
- Lamiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 546
- First record:
- 15/03/2006 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 14/01/2026 (Pugh, Dylan)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote
07 March 2014 Old Fosse Sapcote SP 5012 9260 (taken 22.4.2006).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
22 April 2006
David Nicholls
County Hall, Glenfield
22 March 2011
David Nicholls
Wirlybones Wood, Ratby
18 April 2009
Peter Smith
Cropston, Brooky Lane
20 April 2021
Ron.stevens
Broughton Astley
03 July 2011
HAPeacock
Gilroes Cemetery
24 April 2012
HAPeacock
Gilroes Cemetery
24 April 2012
HAPeacock
The Orchards
03 May 2012
Barbara Cooper
Clawson Hill
20 May 2012
egaten
Croft Glebe
16 April 2021
Andy's Rutland
Exton Road-Empingham
21 March 2021
steven lewis
Scalford
01 April 2019
White flowered
 Old Fosse Sapcote SP 5012 9260 (taken 22.4.2006).JPG)
Amauromyza (Cephalomyza) labiatarum
The larva of the Agromyzif fly Amauromyza labiatarum mines the leaves of various plants including Dead-nettles and Woundworts, producing a mine with a narrow gallery leading to a largish blotch on the upper surface. Frass is green and indistinct in the gallery - small grains may be seen at the gallery edge.