White dead-nettle Lamium album, a favourite plant of bumblebees
Red dead-nettle Lamium purpureum, flowers all year-round
Ground ivy Glechoma hederaceae, in damp grassy places, often on the edge of woodlands
Bugle Ajuga reptans grows in woodland and damp meadows
Self-heal Prunella vulgaris, in short grass and waste places
Henbit deadnettle Lamium amplexicaule, grows in disturbed ground e.g. edges of arable fields
Marsh woundwort Stachys palustris, in ditches and wet soils, hybridises with hedge woundwort (below)
Hedge woundwort Stachys sylvatica, common in shady hedgerows and woodland edges. Unpleasant pungent smell when crushed.
Wood sage Teucrium scorodonia, woodland edges, especially on acid soils
Black horehound Ballota nigra, hedgerows, stiff hairs make it rough to the touch, very pungent when crushed
Betony Betonica officinalis, often in grassland beside roads and footpaths
What a good post, I see very few of those in my area but this year, the Self Heal is very tall and prolific.
ReplyDeleteself-heal grows around the edge of my lawn (which is a rather too dignified name for a patch of grass in the centre of our garden) - the bees like it
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