Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Musky Deadnettle
Common Names in German:
Moschus Taubnessel
Common Names in Hebrew:
Nizmit Levanah
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]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 685 meters (0 to 2,247 feet).[2]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Lamiales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Labiatae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Lamioideae
()
- Subfamily:
Lamioideae
(
- Family:
Labiatae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
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
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 December 04, 2007:
- Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
- The Swedish Museum of Natural History
- , Lund Botanical Museum
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5885702
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15535678
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:448901-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2104838
Footnotes
- "Lamium". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 157. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 462.840 meters (1,518.504 feet), Standard Deviation = 300.550 based on 103 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
