Lamium maculatum(L.) L.

Spotted deadnettle

WFO wfo-0000222579 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lamium maculatum, photographed by Paul Braun
fig. a Paul Braun, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205143807
Lamium maculatum, photographed by Petr Harant
fig. b Petr Harant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203524397
Lamium maculatum, photographed by Andreas Stiller
fig. c Andreas Stiller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205138553
Lamium maculatum, photographed by Vadim Zizov
fig. d Vadim Zizov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203403154
Lamium maculatum, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. e Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205741248
Lamium maculatum, photographed by Vadim Zizov
fig. f Vadim Zizov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203158914
Lamium maculatum, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. g Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203253743
Lamium maculatum, photographed by Константин Селивёрстов
fig. h Константин Селивёрстов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202112549

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 8,343 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 8,343 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 85 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.

  • Lamium affine Guss. & Ten.
  • Lamium album var. maculatum L.
  • Lamium cardiaca Cogn.
  • Lamium columnae Ten.
  • Lamium columnae var. glabratum Ten.
  • Lamium columnae var. pubescens Ten.
  • Lamium cupreum Schott
  • Lamium cupreum subsp. dilatatum (Schur) Nyman
  • Lamium cupreum var. dilatatum Schur
  • Lamium elegantissimum Schur
  • Lamium foliosum Crantz
  • Lamium grandiflorum Willd. ex Benth.
  • Lamium grenieri Mutel
  • Lamium gundelsheimeri K.Koch
  • Lamium hirsutum Lam.
  • Lamium laevigatum L.
  • Lamium laevigatum var. glabratum Ten.
  • Lamium laevigatum var. minor Ten.
  • Lamium laevigatum var. pubescens Ten.
  • Lamium maculatum f. albiflorum F.Gérard
  • Lamium maculatum f. alpinum (Heuff.) Hayek
  • Lamium maculatum f. brevidens Beck
  • Lamium maculatum f. dimorphum Merino
  • Lamium maculatum f. echinatum (Griseb.) Hayek

and 61 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.