Lamiaceae
Red dead-nettle
Lamium purpureum
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Lamium
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Common names
By language (41)
- Arabic
- لاميون أرجواني, أرجيفة, الحُرّيق الأملس, المنتنة, حملح, قريص أحمر
- arz
- لاميون ارجوانى
- Belarusian
- Яснотка пурпуровая, Шанта чырвоная
- Bulgarian
- Червена мъртва коприва
- Catalan
- Lamier pourpre
- Chinese
- 圓齒野芝麻, 大苞野芝麻
- cv
- Йĕпкĕн суккăр вĕлтĕрен
- Czech
- Hluchavka nachová
- Danish
- Rød Tvetand
- Dutch
- Paarse dovenetel
- English
- Red dead-nettle, Purple deadnettle, Purple archangel, Purple dead-nettle
- Esperanto
- Purpura lamio
- Estonian
- Verev iminõges
- Finnish
- Punapeippi
- French
- Lamier pourpre
- German
- Purpurrote Taubnessel, Eingeschnittene Taubnessel, Purpurnessel, Rote Taubnessel
- gv
- Ard-firryn jiarg
- Hebrew
- נזמית ארגמנית
- hsb
- Čerwjena cycawka
- Hungarian
- Piros árvacsalán
- Irish
- Caochneantóg dhearg
- Italian
- Falsa ortica porporina, Làmio porporino
- Japanese
- ヒメオドリコソウ, 姫踊り子草, 姫踊子草
- kw
- Koog linasen rudh
- Latvian
- Sārtā panātre
- Lithuanian
- Raudonžiedė notrelė, Lamier pourpre
- Macedonian
- Пурпурна мртва коприва
- Malayalam
- ലാമിയം പർപൂറിയം
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Rødtvetann
- Persian
- گزنهسای قرمز
- Polish
- Jasnota purpurowa
- Portuguese
- Lâmio-roxo
- Romanian
- Pizda țigăncii, Sugel puturos
- Russian
- Яснотка пурпурная
- Slovak
- Hluchavka purpurová, Hluchavka nachová
- Slovenian
- Škrlatnordeča mrtva kopriva
- Spanish
- Hortiguilla muerta, Lamio púrpura, Ortiga muerta, Ortiga muerta purpúrea, Ortiga muerta roja, Ortiga roja
- Swedish
- Rödplister, Lamier pourpre
- Turkish
- Eflatun çiçekli ballıbaba, Firfiri ballıbaba, Kırmızı ballıbaba
- Ukrainian
- Глуха кропива пурпурова
- Welsh
- Marddanhadlen goch
Synonyms
- Lamiopsis purpurea (L.) Opiz
Flowers
- In flower
- March to April (from 31,487 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: introduced, Canada: introduced, Greenland: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced, St. Pierre and Miquelon: introduced, St. Pierre and Miquelon: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Douglas Goldman, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Sandy Wolkenberg, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: askalotl, CC0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Gianni Del Bufalo bygdb, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Daniel J. Layton, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Christian Hummert, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Gavin Slater, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Enrico Blasutto, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Enrico Blasutto, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
More in Lamium
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- Lamium orvalaLamiaceae
- Cut-leaved dead-nettleLamium hybridumLamiaceae
- Northern dead-nettleLamium confertumLamiaceae
- Lamium garganicumLamiaceae
- Lamium bifidumLamiaceae
- Lamium orientaleLamiaceae
- Lamium caucasicumLamiaceae
- Lamium flexuosumLamiaceae
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.