WHITE DEAD-NETTLE
WHITE ARCHANGEL
Lamium album
Mint / Dead-Nettle Family [Lamiaceae] 
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Mint / Dead-Nettle Family [Lamiaceae]
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| 3rd May 2010, Prestwich Forest Pk, Manchester. | Photo: © RWD |
| Nettle like leaves in alternate side pairs up the square stem, but without stings. |
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| 21st April 2005, Sankey Canal, near St Helens | Photo: © RWD |
| White flowers in chandelier-type rings with up to ten flowers in a ring; in smaller tiers up the stem interleaved by a pair of leaves. Toothed ovate to triangular leaves deeply but un-evenly cut. |
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| 2nd May 2007, Lydiate, Leeds & Liverpool Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
| The bi-laterally symmetric flowers are two-lipped, and emerge from a sepal tube with sharply pointed sepals. The tiers below the uppermost tier are now empty of their flowers. |
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| 19th April 2007, Chirk, Llangollen Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
| White flowers in whorls similar to a gas-ring. Stem square, with hairs. |
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| 19th April 2007, Chirk, Llangollen Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
| Flowers have a hairy upper lip, and a toothed lower lip with two lower lobes. |
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| 19th April 2007, Chirk, Llangollen Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
| Three golden markings are visible on the lower lip when viewed radially. |
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| 3rd May 2010, Prestwich Forest Pk, Manchester. | Photo: © RWD |
| The sharply pointed sepal tubes have blackish markings at the bottom. |
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| 3rd May 2010, Prestwich Forest Pk, Manchester. | Photo: © RWD |
| Normally hidden, there are four golden markings surrounded by blackish rims and hairs. |
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| 3rd May 2010, Prestwich Forest Pk, Manchester. | Photo: © RWD |
| Four golden markings with black rims. |
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Slight resemblance to : White versions of Common Hemp-Nettle. Uniquely identifiable characteristics
Occupies roadside verges, hedgebanks, bare ground, waysides, and disturbed land in grassland,.
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Mint / Dead-Nettle Family [Lamiaceae]
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