Lamiaceae FAMILY
Lamium purpureum
Lamium purpureum
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Lamium purpureum is an annual plant, branching from the base; it can grow around 10 - 45cm tall[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine
Habitat & Origin
Origintemperate
Native RangeThroughout Europe, east to Turkey, Caucasia and West Siberia; Macaronesia, N. Africa - Moroco, Algeria, Tunisia; Arabian Peninsula
HabitatRoadsides, waste places and as a common weed of cultivated land[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ].