Lamium galeobdolon(L.) L.

yellow archangel

WFO wfo-0000222509 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lamium galeobdolon, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. a Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205535851
Lamium galeobdolon, photographed by Vadim Zizov
fig. b Vadim Zizov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203401734
Lamium galeobdolon, photographed by E. A.
fig. c E. A., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203444662
Lamium galeobdolon, photographed by Екатерина Кропочева
fig. d Екатерина Кропочева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201980550
Lamium galeobdolon, photographed by Екатерина Войнова
fig. e Екатерина Войнова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201208427
Lamium galeobdolon, photographed by Nico
fig. f Nico, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201597070
Lamium galeobdolon, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. g Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201505872
Lamium galeobdolon, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. h Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200953372

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Flowering n = 10,574 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 10,574 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 42 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cardiaca sylvatica Lam.
  • Galeobdolon argentatum Smejkal
  • Galeobdolon endtmannii (G.H.Loos) Holub
  • Galeobdolon flavidum (F.Herm.) Holub
  • Galeobdolon galeobdolon (L.) H.Karst.
  • Galeobdolon luteum Huds.
  • Galeobdolon luteum prol. montanum (Pers.) Rouy
  • Galeobdolon luteum subsp. montanum (Pers.) R.R.Mill
  • Galeobdolon luteum var. albomaculatum Salter ex J.Dix
  • Galeobdolon luteum var. florentinum Silva Tar.
  • Galeobdolon luteum var. montanum (Pers.) Gray
  • Galeobdolon luteum var. regulare Gray
  • Galeobdolon montanum (Pers.) Rchb.
  • Galeobdolon umbrosum Wibel
  • Galeobdolon vulgare (Pers.) Pers.
  • Galeopsis galeobdolon L.
  • Galeopsis galeobdolon var. montanum (Pers.) Lej.
  • Galeopsis lutea Gilib.
  • Lamiastrum argentatum (Smejkal) Soják
  • Lamiastrum flavidum (F.Herm.) Ehrend.
  • Lamiastrum galeobdolon (L.) Ehrend. & Polatschek
  • Lamiastrum galeobdolon subsp. argentatum (Smejkal) Stace
  • Lamiastrum galeobdolon subsp. montanum (Pers.) Ehrend. & Polatschek
  • Lamiastrum montanum (Pers.) Ehrend.

and 18 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.