Reaching about a foot in height, whorls of rose-purple flowers the same shape as dead nettles are produced in May.

Learn how to grow and use golden dead nettle in your yard or garden.

At the top of the invasive plant list should go the lamiums, especially the species Lamiastrum galeobdolon, which is sometimes called dead nettle.

Don't bother with "dead nettles"- stingless flowering perennials that had no relation to our nettles and, to Luard's mind, were not worth eating.

In shady areas under trees, dead nettle and periwinkles are at home.

T. bicolor lives mainly on the ground, but is also visible on its host plants - chiefly Lamium (dead nettles) and Ballota nigra (black horehound).

Some bloom for most of the year regardless, such as white dead nettle Lamium album.

She had dead nettle in all its varieties, yellow, red, and white.

Don't confuse stinging nettle (Uritica dioica) with white dead nettle (Lamium album).

Several evergreen perennials also worth considering include the variegated lilyturf, European ginger, wintergreen and dead nettle.