Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia

Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule)


  • also called deadnettle this annual with square hairy stems grows weakly erect to 16 cm; leaves are opposite with the lower ones being long-stalked and the upper ones stalkless and clasping the stem

  • flowers are pink, purple or white and borne in the axils of upper leaves

Two-lipped tubular flower

Photos courtesy Dean Swan, Washington State University (retired)

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