Lamium garganicum

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Lamium

Herbs annual or perennial . Stem leaf blades circular or reniform to ovate-lanceolate, margin coarsely crenate or dentate-serrate. Verticillasters 4-14-flowered; floral leaves similar, much longer than verticillasters; bracts ± linear , early deciduous. Calyx tubular-campanulate to campanulate , 5- or 10-veined, ± hairy outside, throat slightly oblique or regular; teeth 5, subequal , subulate , as long as or longer than tube . Corolla purple-red, reddish, yellowish, to dirty white, 2-lipped, 2(-3) × as long as calyx, hairy outside; tube straight or incurved , cylindric or widened above annulus, subsaccate; upper lip erect , oblong , rounded or emarginate , ± galeate ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed; middle lobe obcordate , emarginate or 2-lobed; lateral lobes semicircular, margin crenate or dentate . Stamens 4, hairy, anterior 2 longer, ascending beneath upper lip; anther cells 2, divaricate . Ovary lobes apically truncate , glabrous or tuberculate , sometimes with a membranous margin. Style apex subequally 2-cleft.

About 40 species: Africa, Asia, Europe, introduced in North America.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 6-9" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 6a, 6b. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lamium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 36 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

L. album (White Dead Nettle Lamium Album) · L. amplexicaule (Common Deadnettle) · L. confertum (Garden Henbit) · L. galeobdolon montanum 'Florentinum' (Yellow Archangel) · L. galeobdolon 'Hermann's Pride' (Hermann's Pride Deadnettle) · L. galeobdolon 'Petit Point' (Archangel) · L. galeobdolon 'Silver Spangles' (Yellow Archangel) · L. galeobdolon 'Variegatum' (Variegated Yellow Archangel) · L. garganicum (Lamium Lamium Garganicum) · L. hybridum (Cut-Leaved Dead-Nettle) · L. maculata'Golden Anniversary' (Golden Anniversary Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum (Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Album' (Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Anne Greenaway' (Anne Greenaway Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Aureum' (Aureum Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Beacon Silver' (Beacon Silver Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Beedham's White' (Beedhams White Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Cannon's Gold' (Cannons Gold Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Chequers' (Chequers Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Elisabeth De Haas' (Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Friday' (Friday Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Golden Anniversary' (Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Orchid Frost' (Orchid Frost Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Pink Chablis' (Spotted Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Pink Nancy' (Spotted Henbit) · L. maculatum 'Pink Pewter' (Pink Pewter Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Purple Dragon' (Purple Dragon Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Red Nancy' (Red Nancy Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'Shell Pink' (Dead Nettle) · L. maculatum 'White Nancy' (White Nancy Dead Nettle) · L. moschatum (Musky Deadnettle) · L. orvala (Balm-Leaved Red Deadnettle) · L. purpureum (Dead Nettle) · L. purpureum var. incisum (Purple Deadnettle) · L. purpureum var. purpureum (Purple Deadnettle) · L. tomentosum (Creeping Deadnettle)

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Further Reading

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 309.
• An environmental profile of the Black Sea Coast WCMC url p. 29.
• An introduction to botany. By John Lindley. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. url p. 78.
• Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Wien: Der Akademie, 1864-1914. url p. 48.
• Flora's dictionary / by a lady. Baltimore: Published by Fielding Lucas Jr., 1832. url .
• Hand-list of herbaceous plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens. London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off. by Darling, 1902. url p. 645.
• Hardy flowers. Descriptions of upwards of thirteen hundred of the most ornamental species, with directions for their arrangement, culture, etc.. .. By W. Robinson. London, Macmillan, 1878. url p. 155.
• Oxford gardens, based upon Daubeny's Popular guide to the physick garden of Oxford: with notes on the gardens of the colleges and on the University park, by R. T. Günther. Oxford: Parker & son; [etc., etc.], 1912. url p. 133.
• Philosophical magazine. London: Taylor & Francis. url p. 315.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 132.
• The English flower garden and home grounds: design and arrangement followed by a description of the plants, shrubs and trees for the open-air garden and their culture / by W. Robinson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. url p. 528.
• The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen. London: George W. Johnson and Robert Hogg, 1861-1877. url p. 481, p. 481.
• The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. url p. 154, p. 28.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 26 1889-90 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 303.
• The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany. London, John van Voorst, 1844-56. url p. 153.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 29, 2007:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Herbarium Willing
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5936565
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15535632
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:971205-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 748669

Footnotes

1. "Lamium". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 157. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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