Purple Deadnettle

(Lamium purpureum)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect or decumbent winter annual herb

Root anatomy: Shallow fibrous roots from taproot

Leaf anatomy: Leaves arranged opposite, orbicular to ovate, deep green to purple, margins scalloped and bristly

Reproduction: Cyme inflorescence, corolla purple-red

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}