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Lamium album L.
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Larix forest margins, wet areas in cleared Picea forest regions, semishady grassy hillsides; 1400-2400 m.
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Foodplant / miner
solitary larva of Agromyza flavipennis mines leaf of Lamium album
Other: sole host/prey
Plant / resting place / within
diurnal larva of Chrysolina fastuosa may be found in fruiting calyx of Lamium album
Foodplant / sap sucker
nymph of Eysarcoris venustissimus sucks sap of Lamium album
In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / false gall
sorus of Melanotaenium jaapii causes swelling of live root of Lamium album
Remarks: season: 2-6
Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Meligethes difficilis feeds on Lamium album
Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Meligethes morosus feeds on Lamium album
Foodplant / parasite
Neoerysiphe galeopsidis parasitises live Lamium album
Foodplant / parasite
sporangium of Peronospora lamii parasitises live Lamium album
Other: unusual host/prey
Foodplant / saprobe
immersed, gregarious, often in lines pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph of Phoma nebulosa is saprobic on dead stem of Lamium album
Foodplant / feeds on
epiphyllous, few pycnidium of Phyllosticta coelomycetous anamorph of Phyllosticta lamii feeds on fading leaf of Lamium album
Remarks: season: autumn
Foodplant / saprobe
gregarious or scattered, erumpent apothecium of Pirottaea lamii is saprobic on dry, dead stem (thin) of Lamium album
Remarks: season: 2-6
Foodplant / spot causer
amphigenous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph of Ramularia lamii var. lamii causes spots on live leaf of Lamium album
Foodplant / spot causer
epiphyllous, few, punctiform, brown pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph of Septoria lamii causes spots on live leaf of Lamium album
Foodplant / sap sucker
nymph of Tritomegas bicolor sucks sap of nutlet of Lamium album
Other: major host/prey
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 13
Specimens with Barcodes: 18
Species With Barcodes: 1
Canada
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
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Lamium album, commonly called white nettle or white dead-nettle,[1] is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native throughout Europe and Asia, growing in a variety of habitats from open grassland to woodland, generally on moist, fertile soils.
Growth[edit]
It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 50-100 cm tall, with green, four-angled stems. The leaves are 3-8 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, triangular with a rounded base, softly hairy, and with a serrated margin and a petiole up to 5 cm long; like many other members of the Lamiaceae, they appear superficially similar to those of the Stinging nettle Urtica dioica but do not sting, hence the common name "deadnettle". The flowers are white, produced in whorls ('verticillasters') on the upper part of the stem, the individual flowers 1.5-2.5 cm long.
Cultivation and uses[edit]
It was introduced to North America, where it is widely naturalised.
The young leaves are edible, and can be used in salads or cooked as a vegetable. The plant is also used in herbal medicine, for example as a dermatological remedy.
Bees, especially bumble bees are attracted to the flowers which are a good source of early nectar and pollen, hence the plant is sometimes called the Bee Nettle.[2]
Chemistry[edit]
Two phenylpropanoid glycosides, lamalboside (2R-galactosylacteoside) and acteoside, the flavonol p-coumaroylglucoside, tiliroside, 5-caffeoylquinic acid (chlorogenic acid), along with rutoside and quercetin and kaempferol 3-O-glucosides can be isolated from the flowers of L. album.[3] The plant also contains the iridoid glycosides lamalbid, alboside A and B, and caryoptoside[4] as well as the hemiterpene glucoside hemialboside.[5]
In folklore[edit]
A distillation of the flowers is reputed "to make the heart merry, to make a good colour in the face, and to make the vital spirits more fresh and lively."[6]
Notes[edit]
- ^ "USDA GRIN Taxonomy".
- ^ botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Nettles
- ^ Phenylpropanoid esters from Lamium album flowers. Jaromir Budzianowski and Lutoslawa Skrzypczak, Phytochemistry, March 1995, Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 997–1001, doi:10.1016/0031-9422(94)00727-B
- ^ Iridoid glucosides from Lamium album. Søren Damtoft, Phytochemistry, January 1992, Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 175–178, doi:10.1016/0031-9422(91)83030-O
- ^ Hemialboside, a hemiterpene glucoside from Lamium album. Søren Damtoft and Søren Rosendal Jensen, Phytochemistry, July 1995, Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 923–924, doi:10.1016/0031-9422(95)00085-L
- ^ Mrs M. Grieve (1931). "NETTLE, WHITE DEAD". A Modern Herbal. Botanical.com.
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The young leaves are edible, and the flowers are used medicinally. It is also used as a honey plant.
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Canada
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Gansu, Nei Mongol, Shanxi, Xinjiang [India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; SW Asia, Europe, North America]
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