When does red deadnettle bloom in Virginia?

Most often in January. Across 551 dated, research-grade observations of Lamium purpureum in Virginia, the flowering season runs roughly January to May.

Peak January In flower 551 Examined 599 State Virginia

Flowering 551 in flower of 599 examined

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82%

92%

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90%

Proportion of examined Lamium purpureum in Virginia in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	7	7	100%	65% to 100%
Feb	36	44	82%	68% to 90%
Mar	218	236	92%	88% to 95%
Apr	267	280	95%	92% to 97%
May	19	21	90%	71% to 97%
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Nov	2	3	too few examined
Dec	2	3	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Lamium purpureum in Virginia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 551 of 599 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Virginia found Lamium purpureum in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Virginia, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Lamium purpureum

red deadnettle

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Virginia. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.