Lamium maculatum
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Spotted dead nettle
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Shoots, Flowers - nectar, Flowers, Leaves
The young shoots are cooked as a vegetable. The flowers are sucked for their nectar. The leaves and flowers are eaten raw in salads or cooked in stews and soups, finely chopped and added to mashed potatoes, and used for herbal teas.
Where to Find It
It is a Mediterranean plant. It grows on hill tops and valleys between 2,400-2,700 m above sea level.
Asia, Balkans, Bosnia, China, Europe, Hungary, Luxembourg, North America, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Türkiye,
How to Identify
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The stems are 30-50 cm tall. They have some white hairs and are hollow. The leaves are 3-5 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. They are green with blue-silver mottling. The flowers are pink.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Lamium maculatum (also known as spotted dead-nettle, spotted henbit and purple dragon) is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native throughout Europe and temperate Asia (Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, western China).
Names & Synonyms
Benli balicak, Chupamieles, Lisasta mrtva kopriva, Mamatetas, Pjegava mrtva kopriva
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