Lamiaceae FAMILY

Lamium album

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

3/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Lamium album is a herbaceous perennial plant that can spread widely by means of creeping rhizomes; it produces many erect stems that can grow around 50 - 100cm tall[ 372 Title Flowers of India Publication Author Website http://www.flowersofindia.net/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A wed site of native Indian plants, plus cultivated and naturalized species. It has good quality photos and terse details on more than 3,000 species and cultivars. ]. 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 gardens. and source of materials.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeEurasia - throughout the temperate regions from western Europe to Russian Far East, China, Japan and Korea

HabitatFields, hedgerows, woodland edges and clearings and moist waste ground[ 7 Title Encyclopaedia of Medicinal Plants. Publication Author Chiej. R. Publisher MacDonald Year 1984 ISBN 0-356-10541-5 Description Covers plants growing in Europe. Also gives other interesting information on the plants. Good photographs. , 9 Title Edible and Medicinal Plants. Publication Author Launert. E. Publisher Hamlyn Year 1981 ISBN 0-600-37216-2 Description Covers plants in Europe. a drawing of each plant, quite a bit of interesting information. , 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. ].