Red deadnettle, April 7

[neverspent]

(For peoriapeoriawhereart. This isn't a great photo, but you can see them better than in the daffodil pic.)

We get red and henbit deadnettles, commonly, and here they're a spring "weed" in lawns and pastures. The summer heat isn't agreeable to them, so they say Mission Accomplished and fade back until next spring. Wise!


Lamium purpureum

(Edit: Photo replaced with a better one, April 9)

Comments

[catsittingstill]

Thank you! I have both red deadnettle and henbit scattered throughout my yard, and I had been wondering what they were. Thank you for the photo and the name!

[neverspent]

My pleasure! I'd been seeing these deadnettle my whole life and they were just sort of "background noise," but when I learned their names I really started to appreciate them. :)