Color Challenge Sunday Purple - "PURPLE HEDGENETTLE" ~ © Tiffany E. Reed

in colorchallenge •  7 years ago  (edited)

Piggy-backing onto my post from Friday about the Speedwell plant that creeps into lawns and pastures, here is another one! This plant is called Purple Dead-nettle, or as I've heard it called: Hedgenettle, because it often seeks shelter under larger plants.

According to Wikipedia, Lamium purpureum is called "dead-nettle" because it resembles other nettle plants, but doesn't have the "stinging hairs" (trichomes) that the stinging nettles have.

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~photo © by me~

And even though it is classified as a "weed," it is a pretty little plant, with flowers that are a delicate purple in color. 😊

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

It may be a “weed” but hey I wouldntnt mind a few growing in my backyard hahah 🌺

It is a pretty little thing, isn't it? Thank you for the lovely comment! 😊

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