Family |
Lamiaceae
Lamium amplexicaule
L.
Lamium amplexicaule L.
First published in Sp. Pl.: 579 (1753).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 138, Pl. LXV, 4; 1983)
Description
Life-form & habit: Annual herb of variable size, usually 10–30 cm tall, often producing several stems from the base.
Leaves: Unequally round-toothed. Lower leaves stalked, rounded to ovate and often heart-shaped at the base; upper floral leaves sessile, kidney-shaped and clasping the stem.
Inflorescence & flowers: One or two spaced terminal flower whorls. Calyx tubular and softly hairy, with slender pointed teeth that converge towards one another. Corolla purple, usually about three times as long as the calyx, with a slender tube and expanded throat; smaller flowers also occur.
Fruit: Nutlets smooth or bearing a few raised whitish tubercles.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: Flowering through much of the year.
Habitat & elevation: Mountain slopes, disturbed soils and abandoned ground.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Saida, Beirut, Tripoli, Qrayye, above Batroun, Qoubbayat, Hasroun, Zahle, Ain Zehalta, Barouk, Sarada, Bherdok and Sannine.
Syrian distribution: Tell Aqibrin, Hama, Chinchar–Qosseir, Deir Baalbe, Qalaat Nejm, Menbij, north of Aleppo, Soueida, Er-Raha, Karatchok Dagh, Tell Alo and Khabab.
Native range: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Qinghai, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya.
Introduced into: Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Columbia, California, Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Ecuador, Falkland Is., Florida, Free State, Georgia, Great Britain, Greenland, Hawaii, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Kansas, Kentucky, Kuril Is., Labrador, Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Southeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Peru, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, St.Helena, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon.