Lamium purpureum




Family Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae)
Subfamily Lamioideae
Scientific name Lamium purpureum L.
Synonyms Lamium hybridum auct., non Villars; Lamium incisum Willdenow; Lamium purpureum L. var. incisum (Willdenow) Persoon
Common name (Japanese common name) hime-odoriko-sou (ヒメオドリコソウ, 姫踊子草 [meaning: dwarf dancing girls weed])
(English common name) purple deadnettle, red archangel, red deadnettle
Distribution (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa
(Other nations) [native] Europe (naturalized elsewhere in temperate regions)
Habitat Roadside, farm yard, field, riverside
Chromosomal number 2n=18
Description Plants electing 10-30cm tall. Flowers purple (or merely white) 1cm long, flowering in March to June. Winter annual plants.
Reference Lamium purpureum L.
Lamium purpureum L.
Thienyloxypyridines and-pyrimidines useful as herbicidal agents (US Patent 6121202/2000)
Synergistic herbicidal mixtures (US Patent 6645911/2003)
Herbicide composition (US Patent 7205260/2007)
6-(poly-substituted aryl)-4-aminopicolinates and their use as herbicides (US Patent 7314849/2008)
Note naturalized plants (first recorded in 1898).



March 2008
at open field
March 2008
at open field
March 2009
at open field