Lamium

Lamium
Lamium amplexicaule
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Lamioideae
Genus: Lamium
L.[1]
Type species
Lamium purpureum
L.
Synonyms[2]
  • Orvala L.
  • Lamiastrum Heist. ex Fabr.
  • Galeobdolon Adans.
  • Pollichia Schrank.
  • Psilopsis Neck.
  • Wiedemannia Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Lamiopsis Opiz
  • Lamiella Fourr.

Lamium (dead-nettles) is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, of which it is the type genus. They are all herbaceous plants native to Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, but several have become very successful weeds of crop fields and are now widely naturalised across much of the temperate world.[3][4]

  1. ^ Carl Linnaeus (1753) Species Plantarum, p. 579.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference POWO:30027405-2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Genere Lamium includes photos and distribution maps for Europe and North America
  4. ^ Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 157 野芝麻属 ye zhi ma shu Lamium Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 579. 1753.