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Wildflower 07: Purple deadnettle


Purple deadnettle. Lamium purpureum. Purpurrote Taubnessel.

Very useful to bees.

20080504 Nikon Coolpix 950

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

How can something so beautiful be so deadly.

Z said...

Are you thinking of nettle, Mo? Deadnettle is called so because while it looks similar to nettle, it does not sting. Young plants are apparently even edible.

USelaine said...

Gorgeous colors - I love deep purple with garden green.

Lynette said...

I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at a bunch of your recent posts--what lovely and interesting photos on a wide range of subjects. If I had to select a favorite, I just couldn't do it. Nice, nice job!

claude said...

Very beautiful flower !

Chica, Cienna, and Cali said...

this looks exotic........