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Plants called "nettle" include: ball nettle – Solanum carolinense; bull nettle Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle; Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle; Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle; Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle; dead nettle, dumb nettle Lamium, particularly Lamium album
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]
Rumex obtusifolius, commonly known as bitter dock, [2] [3] broad-leaved dock, bluntleaf dock, dock leaf, dockens or butter dock, is a perennial plant in the family Polygonaceae. It is native to Europe, but is found on all temperate continents.
It was SoCal nurseryman Paul Ecke Sr. who took a little-known, spindly outdoor plant from Central America in the early 1920s and bred it into a hardy potted plant "whose tapering red leaves have ...
Lamium album, commonly called white dead-nettle, [2] [3] is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native throughout Europe and Asia , growing in a variety of habitats from open grassland to woodland, generally on moist, fertile soils .
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.