lamium

[ ley-mee-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of several plants belonging to the genus Lamium, of the mint family, some species of which have whitish or variegated leaves and are cultivated as ornamentals or ground cover.

Origin of lamium¹

< New Latin (Linnaeus); Late Latin (Pliny): dead nettle, perhaps derivative of lamia lamia

A very instructive case was noticed by one of us in Lamium galeobdolon, or yellow Archangel.

Our common henbit dead-nettle (Lamium amplexicaule) produces cleistogamic flowers, as do also some orchids.

Astragalus is common on the borders of the fields, and in some of them Ervum, Lamium and Vicia.

Tufts of Lamium rhomboideum grew among the loose shingle, but no other plant seemed to vegetate in such an ungenial soil.

The dead nettle (Lamium) (Fig. 120, A) is a thoroughly typical example.

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