Lamium maculatum
ζ*L. maculatum L. ζ*, spotted dead nettle, is sometimes cultivated but the only record of a wild plant is from one specimen collected in Canterbury in the 1870's. It superficially resembles aluminium plant but grows much less rampantly and therefore is less likely to run wild. Perennial creeping herb with ovate, hairy lvs with a small to large, median silvery blotch (midrib area green in Galeobdolon); bracts similar to lvs; corolla c. 25 mm long, pink or purplish; upper lip c. 10 mm long, suborbicular; lateral lobes of lower lip very small, subulate. (Europe, 1880).
