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Purple Dead Nettle

Lamium purpureum

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Description:

This is a very small plant, about 4 inches high. Green leaves on the bottom, purple on the top, with these tiny little, pink, what look like orchids, blooming only out of the top. They grow wild in our yard.

Species ID Suggestions

Purple Dead Nettle

Lamium purpureum

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Latimeria
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Latimeria
I've seen this plant come up in some other submissions over the past few weeks, how fortuitous! Check out the other spottings that have been submitted too, there are some very pretty pictures of it on the site now.

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Flowers of North America
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PublishedApril 7, 2011

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