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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : lamin

Scientific name: Lamium hybridum Vill.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Lamium hybridum subsp. dissectum (With.) Gaus.

Classification: Labiatae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: cut-leaved deadnettle

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Bastard-Taubnessel ; ES : ortiga híbrida ; FR : lamier hybride ; IT : falsa ortica ibrida ; PT : falsa-urtiga ; EN : cut-leaved deadnettle ; NL : Ingesneden dovenetel ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons auriculate.

- Leaves entire, rounded, with distal teeth.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-30 cm.

- Stem erect, ascending, relatively robust, branched near the base, leafless below the flowers.

- Leaves rounded, long-stalked and irregularly incised-dentate. Floral leaves deltoid, obtuse, closed.

- Flowers crimson 4-8 in whorls. Calyx pubescent, with subequal lobes, apiculate, toothed, 6-8 mm long. Corolla 2-lipped, 8-12 mm long, with usually a hairy tube, the upper lip helmet-shaped and the lower lip 3-lobed with a median lobe larger than the lateral ones.

- Fruit : achene smooth, circa 2 mm long.

- Risk of confusion with Lamium purpureum L. (which has crenate bracts ), Lamium amplexicaule L. (which has amplexicaul bracts).

- Biological type: Annual.

Mistake with: Lamium purpureum


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