Lamiaceae FAMILY

Lamium galeobdolon

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Lamium galeobdolon is a herbaceous perennial plant spreading widely by means of stolons; it produces a loose mat of erect stems that can grow around 30 - 60cm tall[ 352 Title KemperCentreForHomeGardeningPlantFinder Publication Author Website http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Year 0 ISBN Description Basic cultivation details, plant uses, habitat etc for several thousand species of plants, mainly from the temperate zone. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. It is sometimes grown as a ground cover plant in wilder parts of the garden[ 352 Title KemperCentreForHomeGardeningPlantFinder Publication Author Website http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Year 0 ISBN Description Basic cultivation details, plant uses, habitat etc for several thousand species of plants, mainly from the temperate zone. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeThroughout Europe, excluding Norway, Finland and Portugal, east to West Siberia, Turkey and Iran

HabitatWoods and shady hedgerows[ 5 Title Food for Free. Publication Author Mabey. R. Publisher Collins Year 1974 ISBN 0-00-219060-5 Description Edible wild plants found in Britain. Fairly comprehensive, very few pictures and rather optimistic on the desirability of some of the plants. , 31 Title Shade Plants for Garden and Woodland. Publication Author Brown. Publisher Year ISBN Description ], usually on heavier soils. Sometimes becoming locally dominant, especially after coppicing[ 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. ].