species
Lamium purpureum
Purple archangel · Purple dead-nettle · Red dead-nettle
Scale drawing from this record, beside a 1.7 m figure.
Lamium purpureum belongs to the family Lamiaceae, also known as Purple archangel, Purple dead-nettle or Red dead-nettle, introduced before 1500 and long since part of the landscape. It grows in part shade, where the ground is neutral and in well drained conditions.
Assembled from the attributes recorded below.
What this plant needs
- Aspect
- Part shade
- Acidity
- Neutral
- Moisture
- Well drained
- In the UK
- Archaeophyte (pre-1500)
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