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Black Horehound, Ballota nigra, with some remaining pinky-purple flowers that have patterned petals and a hairy hood, seen this week in Cambridge
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August 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Gypsywort/Gipsywort, Lycopus europaeus, with its tiny white and purple speckled flowers growing in a whorl around its square stem, seen this week in Cambridge - and a new one for me
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August 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
With a helping hand here are Large-flowered & Common Hemp-nettle bunched together (Galeopsis speciosa & tetrahit)
Day late for #WildflowerHour #DeadNettlefamily at @rspb.bsky.social Lakenheath #Suffolk
July 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Only a day late for #WildflowerHour #DeadNettlefamily the biggest patch of Large-flowered Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis speciosa) you ever did see. Behind the scenes at @rspb.bsky.social Lakenheath #Suffolk during survey work on a restricted area of the reserve.
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July 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Back in the Dordogne for a bit (so this isn’t UK) but lovely to find the very impressive Broad-leaved Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis ladanum) growing in a ditch behind our house #Deadnettlefamily #wildflowerhour
July 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A rare plant here, Wild Basil, on a rural road verge in North Cornwall today.

Clinopodium vulgare

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July 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM

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July 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Common Calamint, with many plants on a village pavement and walls. North Cornwall today.

Clinopodium ascendens

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July 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Absolutely fabulous! #DeadNettlefamily
The image for this week’s #wildflowerhour challenge post is one from W. Keble Martin’s classic wildflower guide, The Concise British Flora in Colour. Isn’t it a beauty? There’s some very lovely members of the Lamiaceae or #DeadNettlefamily can you find one for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm?
July 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Balm, Melissa officinalis, a persistent garden 'weed' in #Cambridge #WildflowerHour #DeadNettlefamily
July 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Almost #DeadNettlefamily, and no longer in flower.
July 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A Skullcap Scutellaria galericulata captured by Loch Lomond along the West Highland Way route #wildflowerhour #DeadnettleFamily
July 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Two plants of ponds/damp ground in the Lamiaceae or #DeadNettlefamily for #WildflowerHour this week - Water Mint and Marsh Woundwort. Both of these spread by creeping stems as well as by seed.
July 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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July 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I think this was wild basil #DeadNettleFamily #WildflowerHour
July 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Some #DeadNettlefamily from Warren Farm and Long Wood (west London) yesterday.
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July 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
For the #deadnettlefamily challenge I can't resist "recycling" a favourite flower from my visit to Braunton Burrows 3 weeks ago - a lovely Skullcap.
And from this week - a simple, White Dead-nettle (love those furry hoods!) and Betony - both purple and white flowers found. #wildflowerhour
July 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Water Mint - Mentha aquatica - for #DeadNettlefamily #wildflowerhour
July 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Some #DeadNettleFamily plants for #WildflowerHour.
Lesser Calamint and Betony from earlier this week, and Balm, Marsh Woundwort, Yellow Archangel, Ground Ivy, Black Horehound, White Dead-nettle, Bugle & Red Dead-nettle from earlier this year 🙂
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July 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
July 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Chalk grasslands never disappoint when it comes to finding members of the #DeadNettleFamily.
Yesterday’s walk along the White Cliffs near Dover felt like flipping through a Lamiaceae wildflower guide, with one beauty after another popping up along the coastal path
#WildflowerHour
July 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM