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Are these nettles?

fizzylizfizzyliz Posts: 398
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2021
    They’re White Deadnettles ... no sting and wonderful for bumblebees ... the roadsides are full of them at the moment ... so pretty. 😊 when we were children we’d suck the sweetness from the flowers. 😋 

    https://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/discover-wild-plants-nature/plant-fungi-species/white-dead-nettle

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    If they sting, yes they are nettles.  If not they are dead-nettles which come in several forms with creamy flowers, purpley pink flowers and another with variegated leaves and yellow flowers.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    White dead nettle, Lamium album. Dead because it doesn't sting!
    Very popular with bees and quite pretty. I have this and the red version growing wild here on a sunny bank.
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