Spotted Dead-nettle - Lamium maculatum

Short to tall, hairy, aromatic plant. Patch forming. Leaves triangular-ovate coarsely toothed often with a central whitish blotch or band. Flowers pinkish purple 20 to 35 mm long with a curved corolla tube.

Forms with unmarked leaves can be similar to Lamium purpureum

Unlike other pink-flowered species, the corolla tube is curved

Waste ground, tips, hedgerows near habitation. Much grown in gardens, and naturalised; often persists in tipped garden waste

April to October.

Perennial.

Mostly found in central, southern and western England.

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 21 of the 617 tetrads.