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It is commonly known as ground-ivy, gill-over-the-ground, [2] creeping charlie, alehoof, tunhoof, catsfoot, field balm, and run-away-robin. [2] It is also sometimes known as creeping jenny, but that name more commonly refers to Lysimachia nummularia. It is used as a salad green in many countries.
Pilea nummulariifolia is a perennial evergreen herbaceous plant commonly known as creeping charlie native to the Caribbean (including Florida [1]) and northern South America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It can be grown indoors, for example in a hanging pot.
The common name "dead-nettle" has been derived from the German Taubnessel ("deaf nettle", or "nettle without a kernel"), [11] and refers to the resemblance of Lamium album [12] to the very distantly related stinging nettles, but unlike those, they do not have stinging hairs and so are harmless or apparently "dead".
Lamium purpureum grows with square stems to 5–20 centimetres (2–8 in), [4] rarely 40 cm, in height. [5] The leaves have fine hairs, are green at the bottom and shade to purplish at the top; they are 2–4 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and broad, with a 1–2 cm petiole (leaf stalk), and wavy to serrated margins.
Creeping charlie is a common name for several species of flowering plants: Glechoma hederacea , also known as "ground ivy", in the family Lamiaceae Pilea nummulariifolia , in the family Urticaceae
Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle; dead nettle, dumb nettle Lamium, particularly Lamium album; false nettle – Boehmeria; flame nettle – Coleus; hedge nettle – Stachys; hemp nettle – Galeopsis; horse nettle: Agastache urticifolia – horse-nettle; Solanum carolinense – ball-nettle, Carolina ...
The common names archangel and dead-nettle have been in use for hundreds of years. In 1578 Rembert Dodoens observed that "Dead nettell groweth every where". [46] John Gerard used the word "archangel" in 1633. [47] Gerard believed the dead-nettles were so-named because their leaves resembled those of the true nettles in the family Urticaceae. [48]
Lamium hybridum, the cut-leaved dead-nettle, [1] is a species of Lamium native to western and northern Europe and northwestern Africa. [2] The specific name means ' hybrid '; however, Dominique Villars , in describing the species, did not give his reasons for selecting this name.