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Title: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Emilio Monedero on December 01, 2012, 05:30:09 PM: Hello friends,

I live recently in Germany and I am discovering the local flora. I saw this beautiful plant in Darmstadt in several woods and I think it's a Labiateae. I can not find the name anywhere. Please can anyone help me?

Thank you.
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Lori S. on December 01, 2012, 05:54:43 PM: Lamium galeobdolon.
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Emilio Monedero on December 01, 2012, 06:01:44 PM: WOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Thanks!!!!
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Maggi Young on December 01, 2012, 06:28:06 PM: They make a lovely carpet on the ground with those pretty leaves, don't they?
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Emilio Monedero on December 01, 2012, 06:38:46 PM: And the flowers are spectacular!!!

(http://www.botanikaland.hu/botanica/sarga-arvacsalan/1.jpg)
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Maggi Young on December 01, 2012, 06:45:25 PM: Superb photo - the website http://www.botanikaland.hu/ (http://www.botanikaland.hu/) has some super pix!
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Armin on December 01, 2012, 09:34:36 PM: It is a nice weed Lamium galeobdolon - Gewöhnliche Goldnessel.

When I was a child I and my friends often pulled out the calyxes to suck the sweet nectar ;D
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Susan Owl on December 02, 2012, 09:36:25 AM: Quote from: Armin on December 01, 2012, 09:34:36 PM

When I was a child I and my friends often pulled out the calyxes to suck the sweet nectar ;D

So did I - with all Lamiums I could find! :D
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Maggi Young on December 02, 2012, 02:50:40 PM: Quote from: Susan Owl on December 02, 2012, 09:36:25 AM
So did I - with all Lamiums I could find! :D

I never heard this before! 8)
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 02, 2012, 09:18:44 PM: There's a nice form with all silver foliage except for a fine green edge, and white flowers. Can't remember its name but it was in all the garden centres some years ago. Never see it now. ::)
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Hans A. on December 02, 2012, 09:30:35 PM: Lesley, think the plant you mean is Lamium maculatum ‘White Nancy’.
The second plant khalid posted should be the cultivar Lamiastrum galeobdolon 'Herman's Pride'
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Lori S. on December 02, 2012, 09:35:33 PM: Quote from: Hans A. on December 02, 2012, 09:30:35 PM
...Lamiastrum galeobdolon 'Herman's Pride'
Apparently, Lamiastrum galeobdolon is now Lamium galeobdolon... for those who follow such things. ::)
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Hans A. on December 02, 2012, 10:20:43 PM: Quote from: Lori Skulski on December 02, 2012, 09:35:33 PM
Apparently, Lamiastrum galeobdolon is now Lamium galeobdolon... for those who follow such things. ::)
Thanks Lori - First I knew it as Lamium - then Lamiastrum ...and now Lamium again... ::)
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 03, 2012, 02:41:52 AM: Oh yes Hans, you're right. I had them both some years ago but not now. when I think of the list of plants that have come and gone..... well, better not to think of it. ???
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Lvandelft on December 03, 2012, 04:52:25 PM: Quote from: Maggi Young on December 02, 2012, 02:50:40 PM
I never heard this before! 8)
Seeing white deadnettle in nature I still cannot resist picking some flowers :)
Sweet as honey!
Schön war die Jugendzeit .... ::) ::) ;D
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 03, 2012, 07:32:46 PM: I found a flourishing red clover in my garden yesterday and sucking the honey from little pinches of florets took me right back to childhood. :)
Title: Re: Lipped wild mottled leaves in Germany
Post by: Great Moravian on December 04, 2012, 01:23:57 PM: Quote from: Hans A. on December 02, 2012, 10:20:43 PM
Thanks Lori - First I knew it as Lamium - then Lamiastrum ...and now Lamium again... ::)
You are really strange people. There are no currently obligatory names in botany, really.
Who thinks the differences are not important calls it Lamium, who thinks the
differences are important calls it Lamiastrum. That's all. I prefer Lamium.
You can prefer the former or the latter, either is correct.
By the way, it is a weedy species in shaded gardens which is native to the woods
around Brno too. It needs steady renewing by stolons.