Lamium Purpureum

Scientific Name: Lamium purpureum

Common Name: purple deadnettle

Symbol: LAPU2

Category: Dicot

Genus: Lamium

Family: Lamiaceae

Family Common Name: Mint family

Order: Lamiales

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta

Kingdom: Plantae

Duration: Annual

Growth Habit: Forb/herb

Native Status: L48 (I), AK (I), CAN (I), GL (I), SPM (I)

Edible: unknown

Odd flowers of lamium

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Scientific Name: Lamium purpureum

Common Name(s): purple deadnettle, purple henbit, spotted deadnettle, spotted henbit

Edible: yes

Medicinal: yes

Parts Used: root, stem, fruit, leaf

your_comforting_company 8 Mar, 2010	The odd flowers resemble spotted bluecurls, without the curled stamens. The single petal is 5-lobed with a hood above and two "platforms" below, often spotted. Leaves are opposite on square stems, often tinged with red or purple along the coarsely round-toothed edges of the kidney shaped leaves.
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your_comforting_company 8 Mar, 2010	Whole plant is edible as salad or potherb (Elpel). Because of it's tannin content, cooking is recommended. The plant also contains mucilage and many flavonoids. Used as an astringent (tannins) and expectorant for cough (mucilage). (Elpel)
Current Rating: 0.0000

Bastgodofcats 7 May, 2012	And the bruised leaves can be crushed and applied to external cuts and wounds
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