Have you been one of those kids who suckled on white deadnettle flowers for their delicious, honey-like nectar? Even if not, you should take a look at the following profile with all the facts worth knowing about this plant.

The white deadnettle has healing powers

Nothing but mere facts

  • Plant Family: Lamiaceae
  • Botanical name: Lamium album
  • Origin: Europe, North Asia
  • Occurrence: Gardens, meadows, forest edges, roadsides, bushes
  • Growth: upright, herbaceous
  • leaves: heart-shaped to ovate, hairy, coarsely toothed
  • Flowering period: May to September
  • Flowers: Labiate, whorled, white
  • Fruits: four-part split fruit
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
  • Soil: nutrient-rich, moist
  • Specialties: edible, medicinal
  • Effect: antibacterial, blood purifying, diuretic, expectorant, antispasmodic

Many names for this nitrogen gauge

The white dead nettle is also known under the other names flower nettle, bee's suction, cuckoo nettle and white nettle. Unlike its relatives, it is perennial. As a nitrogen indicator, it prefers to grow on nutrient-rich soil on wild meadows, in damp ditches and in bushes. It can be found in Europe up to altitudes of 2,000 m.

This perennial can be used!

Fancy something new on the menu? How about the white deadnettle? It is edible and extremely rich in minerals and trace elements. She also has healing powers. For example, it can be used for:

  • to cough
  • fever
  • colds
  • bladder problems
  • white flow
  • gastrointestinal problems

It can be recognized by these external features!

The white deadnettle has a multi-branched rootstock and stalks with four edges on the surface. It grows between 20 and 80 cm high. Its leaves are opposite, stalked and hairy like the stems. They grow up to 7 cm long, are heart-shaped to ovoid and have coarsely serrated edges.

The flowers appear in May. They stand in false whorls and continue to flower until September. The individual labial flowers are hermaphroditic, five-fold and two-lipped. The arched upper lip towers over the lower lip. Overall, the white crown is between 2 and 2.5 cm long. A honey-like scent emanates from the flowers.

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White deadnettles are not only beautiful in the wild. They are also suitable for planting in perennial beds. There they look fantastic next to cranesbills, astilbes, ferns and hostas, for example.

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Herbs