How to Identify Purple Dead Nettle - Lamium purpureum
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Hey guys in this video we'll take a look at a very common plant that's easy to identify, known as Purple Dead Nettle, or Lamium purpureum. Purple Dead Nettle is frequently found in lawns, gardens, fields, edges of roadsides and edges of trails. Like its name implies the plant has purple flowers and even the leaves on the top of the plant will have a purple coloration to them. Though it's called a nettle, it doesn't actually sting like a regular Stinging Nettle would. The leaves of this plant are spade shaped with rounded teeth running along the margins. Being in the Mint family it has other characteristics that other mints carry, like having a square stem and an opposite leafing pattern. There are two shapes of leaves you will find on this plant. On the top of the plant are the spade shaped leaves mentioned earlier, and at the base of the plant the leaves will be more heart shaped, somewhat reminiscent of young Garlic Mustard leaves. Though it's in the mint family it doesn't have any minty flavor, instead it's more peppery and grass like, so be aware of that when you use it in salads. This plant is edible and medicinal and is frequently used in teas and salves.
In the Ozarks, I collect Purple Dead Nettles and make a pesto with sunflower seeds, garlic, and walnut oil to eat right away or freeze into cubes for pasta dishes later. It's really good fresh on grilled morels!
It would be lovely to have your entire recipe for that pesto!
🎉so cool. Appreciate More information 🎉
Yeah I'm also here for the recipe please thank you :)
Can I have the entire recipe? This stuff grows everywhere in my hometown in Mississippi! I have eaten it raw, but it taste like dirt to me. Lol. I need a recipe or somethin'! 😂😂😂😂
I would love a recipe also 😆 that sounds really good
I loved this flower when I was a kid, I used to gather little bouquets of it in the Spring. Little did I know I was harvesting food!
Loads of plants are like that, but hey, now you know!
My daughter does the same
You can take the flowers and suck out the nectar
@@ellyketchum3290 like honeysuckle?
@@ellyketchum3290 I did too!!
I have been wondering what this cute little plant in my yard was for years and never got around to looking it up. It's so attractive, I figured it was some perennial that escaped a garden. So exciting to know it is a native wildflower.
We have entire raised beds of purple dead nettle every Spring. Great information, thanks for sharing. 🌲🦌🌲
Thank-you! I just found a lot of this growing out in the area where my quail cage is. I had a run in over a decade ago with stinging nettle that found its way into my yard when I had manure dropped from a farm in town. Holy moly!! I had no idea of stinging nettle. I'd never heard of it. My legs were on fire for a good week. It was like someone had scrubbed insulation fibers into my legs. When I saw this growing around the area of the quail cage, I didn't want to end up in a bad way again! This video couldn't have been posted at a better time! I was a little unsure when I bent down and examined the plants, because under the flowers, on the stems, are soft spikes. So, I was terrified I was going to have a problem out there! Thanks so much for a great video. Now, I want to try some in a salad!
I can only imagine what you went through with the Stinging Nettle. I don’t blame you for being cautious of Dead Nettle and imagining the worst scenario, lol! This guy is very well versed in Plant knowledge and lectures to the point and on point.
If you know what jewel weed is rub it on your legs. The pain goes away instantly. The burr plant that looks like rhubarb works too.
Wow... thank you! 😊 if we just pay attention, food is right in our backyard. 👏🏾 🙌🏾 👏🏾
You're very welcome! Absolutely! There's so much food right under our feet and it's super healthy for us too!
Excellent description and visuals. We have this on our acreage, so happy to know it is edible. Thank you so much. Your a great teacher.
the name doesn't give me a lot of confidence...
@@bobs5596 it's called dead nettle because it doesn't sting.
All over my yard…. I can’t wait to use this in salves & teas. 😎
Thank you.
Excellent video with good clear visuals and straight-to-the-point scripted narration. I've always had difficulty distinguishing this plant from henbit. You get my 👍
Really glad to hear you enjoyed the video!
Looks like self heal! Thanks for this✨They are both such special & healing herbs🌼🙏🌸
Yeah that's what I was thinking looks just like all heal
got this growin on my front lawn. i use it in my tea along with the broad leaf plantain, wild green onions, dandelions n a few other things in my tea
Sounds interesting but delicious!
@@TrilliumWildEdibles thank yas. i try not to use way to much cause as far as i know its high in iron
What I like best about it is that I can let it run rampant throughout my yard in the early spring and it magically disappears just as the grass is full and lush. I did not know until last week that it was edible! Live and learn, as you learn to live better :)
Your videos are always helpful and very well done. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Much love and respect... Peace.
I have so much of this growing by my house! I wondered if it had medicinal properties. thank you very much, very informative!
Your identification videos are the best out there! Thanks for all the great info.
Oh, geez, yeah. Tons of that blooming all over my yard. I love them; so pretty. I thought it was useful, but couldn't remember exactly how.
I’ve observed Bumblebees consistently feed on Purple Dead nettle but not other bee species.
yes, bumble bees love it. there could be a dozen or more working a patch in the woods. i remember a place we called ''bee island ''as kids.it wasn't an island, just a very large patch of dead nettle loaded with bumble bees. we were afraid to walk through it because of them.
I was working in my back yard over the weekend and noticed a lot of this plant all over the yard. Thank you so much for this video. It taught me a lot, and now I know what I'm looking at! I also live in South Central Indiana. Very cool and I am so happy to support a local channel on wild plants!
Nice, I'm glad this was helpful for you! It's always great to have another Hoosier here!
Hoosier too! Waves 👋 to my new found neighbors on UA-cam
Hello there neighbor!
Thank you,just noticed this plant today not knowing what it was. Of course it's going to stay and hopefully propagate.😊
Thank you for sharing this information with us
You're very welcome!
Welcome back Josh, glad to see when you post. Purple dead nettle ive been watching since about the first of march thia year but finally bloomed earlier this week right after the grape hyacinth did
Yeah mine just started blooming about a week ago as well. It's always nice seeing you in the comments!
Yes thanks for sharing this with us. I now know this plant, Dead nettle and the kin similar to clarify between the nettle. 😮
Glad to be of some help!
I have a yard full of this!
Yes, this is one of the most beautiful wild plants I ever seen. I really think it's the most beautiful. Lol.
🌞I really enjoy your channel - thank you for the clear concise info
I was looking at this plant yesterday in my yard wondering if it was edible and this morning I got my answer thanks to you! It’s good to know if food shortages were to continually get worse what we can eat that grows in the wild. Ty so much!
Thanks, man...I live on Vancouver Island and was stumped by this plant. The square stalk was the key to identification. A mint, yes. Great production. Cheers from B.C. (Canada)
Looking at some in my yard right now. Nice.
The flowers have a sweet taste as well
I came across this video this morning. I was fascinated bc just yesterday I was walking along the roadside and I found a bunch of this plant. I stopped to smell it. I wondered if it was medicinal. Now I know it is! I'll go back with a basket and collect some!
I love how you show its look alike:)
Glad to hear you liked that!
I love Henbit and Dead Nettle! I let them bloom out before I think of mowing. Also, the wild Violets, I let bloom out. I had no idea Dead Nettle is a wild edible!!! I shall try it in a salad this Spring. Thanks and I love your Channel content.
Glad it was helpful for you!
You're doing it right :) It's wise to let those helpful plants grow out and ensure seed for next year before mowing.
I SAW THIS while I was out at a certain location LOADED with wild edibles and medicinals. I saw wild lettuce, broad and standard plantain and even young kangaroo apple plants (which is why I was there in the first place), also hoping to find appleberry. If I think something rings a bell, I just take a photo. And THIS WAS THERE and I sensed I should get a photo.
I'll have been in my apt for a year this upcoming June. As I experience my first Spring Season here, I'm seeing my first 4x4 section of outdoor space coming up PDN . I was delighted to see that, and as a medicine maker I'm looking forward to harvesting some for tea, and maybe even add some to a salad. ! Thank you for being extremely thorough, although I feel that if you're going to mention its medicinal capabilities that maybe you could elaborate and include a few remedies these plants would be good for!
Our rabbits absolutely love PDN. They benefit from the vitamins and minerals just as people do.
I'm from central Indiana as well, I see fields of it off of Hwy 40 and I love the color.
It's taking over my lawn too.
I have those that have taken over some of my garden beds, and I’ve been pulling those out!oops! I thought they were creeping Charlie.
What a great description! Thank you!
Thank you from Grenoble France😊
Always the best identification videos too bad you're not in the PNW we have so many microclimate here.
I have this growing in my yard right now and left it because I thought it was pretty! So cool to know more about it 😃
We have cultivated varieties in many colours of flowers and leaf pattern and white patterning on the leaves
Beautiful flower to have around and they come up so early it's a great plant for pollinaters
Very hardy
Never saw much of this where we lived in the uk even though it is a european and asian native but we ate common stinging nettles (urtica dioica) in early spring. They filled the gap between the last of the brussel sprouts and winter cabbage and spring greens. But, like borage and spinach, being high in iron should not be eaten every day. Or so advice goes. I do know overdosing on iron tablets is dangerous. Especially if children find a bottle. An overdose can kill a small child.
It’s rampant all over my yard ! Had no idea it was edible.
Thank you, I always wondered what it was. Keep trying to identify everything in my yard.
Wow ''Purple Dead Nettle'' 😅😅🤦, we call this "Easter flowers because they emerges around that time each year
Wow! This video has so much info. Thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome!
Someone in the neighbor hood had an entire front lawn filled with these pretty little plants & then they mowed them down. I had no idea until now what the name of them was or that they are edible, I don't think the people who mowed them down had any idea either.
Ty sooo much for this video! I’ve been trying to id this one for years now. I have heard it called catmint. I’m so very pleased to find that it’s edible and medicinal! Ty again! ❤
It’s a pain! I pull, and pull, yank, and yank yet it always comes back invading every inch of ground! In a wild field it
may be beautiful to look upon, but in my tiny space of a yard, no thank you!
Why I’m in central Indiana too and seen this in my yard.
Purple haze, all in my mind... excuse me while I kiss the sky.... lol
It’s easy to identify in my yard. I just look down and there it is. I didn’t know it was edible. It has a “bitter smell” to me.
When I was a kid I used to pick the purple flowers out and eat the white part for the tiny little sugary taste.
Great info, but is all the plant edible or just parts, and how do you eat it ? Thanks for sharing.
This is the first spring that I’ve been into foraging and eating wild edible plants, and these things are so good! I’ve started to develop a taste for them, learning how to identify the best tasting ones. They’re surprisingly juicy!
When we were kids me and my friends used to pick these and chew on the sweet flowers, good times
I wish you would have added the medicimal benefits~
Used to eat the bottoms of the flowers when I was a kid. Tiny bit o' sweetness.
Glad to know this is edible!
This is a wildflower I always admired. Cool to know it's an edible herb!
More like a weed the way it takes over.
@@alexanderboyer7720 weeds=herbs!
This stuff grows all over Arkansas. The bees love it 😁❤
I weeded a shit ton of this out of my strawberry patch yesterday
I would have thought it was poisonous because of the name 😂
As a kid I would pick the flowers, there very sweet.
Thank you for the video.Are all parts of the plant edible?
I have a good deal of that in my yard. Purslane also.
i eat it every year. smells like musty basement.🍻
I have had these in my yards in several completely different regions! Good to know what their uses are.
Is THAT what this is called?! It grows all over the place here.
Not the tastiest but common and abundant.
Absolutely agree there!
Totally not tasting😁
I was admiring this stuff the other day!! I love when it grows around cement steps.
I'm curious how this might be used as a food crop in large scale. It's so easy to grow that it would be an excellent alternative to more input intensive crops, if only a way to marketably utilize it can be found.
Just go pick you some when Spring hits. Then when Spring hits again, pick you some more.
The flowers look like orchids to me.❤
Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !
You're very welcome!
it is harder to find wild vegetables
when society is removing them
and replacing them with some common boring plants
Tysvm
You're so very welcome!
Have you done a video on Miner's Lettuce. I'm trying to definitively identify in the Easter Sierras. I've encountered a bunch of look alikes, but not a plant that I believe is a match. The best match (to videos and books) I have found so far has been at Home Depot. It was some plant from South America that looks like a giant version.
I do not unfortunately. That's a plant I haven't run across yet.
To get rid of it when it shows up in a vegetable garden will it come back if it is cut off at the base of the stem? Do you need to rip it out by the roots?
The other day I mistook those for self heal an freaked out when I felt the hairs iny mouth. 😅 Glad to know it's not a baddie.
I'll go looking this weekend, thanks!
Good luck, they're everywhere right now across most the U.S.
Henbit???? edit not looking like our henbit...I am complaining to my Universitey of KY for not correcting me on my henbit that was really dead metal
Thanks! 😉 👍
Im in Nashville, TN and I have a ton of this and chickweed in my backyard. When i moved to this home i got a plant identifier app and figured every plant and tree i have in my backyard.
I have that growing all over my yard, keeping it out of the garden is a chore.
This sprung up in my front yard a week ago. Had no clue what it was & this randomly showed up in my YT feed which is a little odd
I've got a one-year-old son and we were out in the yard playing the other day and all of the flowers are blooming and he's seen one of them across the yard and had to run over there and get it because it was taller than the rest and his first instinct was to eat it
Looks a tiny bit like Salvia divinorum. Or maybe I'm confused.
Today I learned that it’s not all henbit. I always just assumed they were variations within the same species.
Look's like catnip in late summer ( other than the flower's) it is also a strain of mint.
I’ve heard it called catmint.
@Amanda Brown In Northeastern Washington it is called napweed and is encouraged to be eradicated. They will give you a fine if you have too much on your property. It is an excellent "diaphoretic" ( make's) you sweat out impurities. It and Coloidial silver will cure a common cold. Take it with a strong Rosehip tea.👍😙
as a kid, here in denmark, we used to call them honey nettles. we would pick the little purple flower and suck out the nectar :)
I'm also from central Indiana thanks for your videos and your channel friend it's very helpful 👍
Purple Dead Nettle, or as we call it Arkansas, grass (this stuff grows almost everywhere here).
It seems to be prolific across multiple states. I know here in Indiana it's everywhere.
I will Lear more. As long as I watch and learn from your knowledge.
I used to call the tiny little flowers on this plant Fairy Slippers when I was a kid.
I thought it resembled mint! you would not think a plant with the word dead as a name would be eatable.
This is a weed in my yard and garden my chickens love it they eat the shit out of every bit I weed from my garden
My bunnies will take your fingers off for this. It stinks and the stinkier it is the more they like it.
Great video but now I'm even more confused. I'm going to have to go out when the sun's up and check my yard because I have something I feel is almost the same I thought it was called bee balm. First thing I'm going to check this morning thank you so much
Bee balm is different
You're very welcome! I have a video on how to identify bee balm on my channel l. It's titled How to Identify Bee Balm.
This stuff is edible but it tastes like....well you know! There are many more edible plants that are FAR better to eat and much easier on your digestive system. That said, some people seem to be able to eat and enjoy nearly anything! I'd recommend starting with small amounts of the youngest, most tender leaves you can find. The stem is less tasty.
I love the color purple ! Thanks for sharing👍💜