Taxon: Lamium purpureum L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Lamium purpureum var. hybridum (no accessions)

Common names:

• purple dead-nettle   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• red archangel   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• red dead-nettle   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• rote Taubnessel   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• urtiga-púrpura   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• rödplister   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco [n.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland [s.]; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part [w.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece - Crete; Italy [incl. Sardinia]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere in temperate regions

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with two varieties].
• Mennema, J. 1989. A taxonomic revision of Lamium (Lamiaceae). Leiden Bot. Ser. 11:117.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• University of Texas Herbarium. 2000–. The mints of Texas (on-line resource).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lamium purpureum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lamium purpureum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lamium purpureum.

Synonyms:

• Lamium hybridum Vill. [≡ Lamium purpureum var. hybridum]
  

Check other web resources for Lamium purpureum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Forestry Images: Images of invasive weeds from www.forestryimages.org
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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