Bob Leaney and Jo Parmenter encountered this specimen during a socially-distanced walk near Woodbastwick in late January. This plant is easily mistaken for straightforward Lamium purpureum, but is strikingly larger, with more sharply-toothed, slightly glossy mid-green leaves, and larger calyx size, and looks for all the world like a pink-flowered Lamium album. Although the calyx size falls just within the size-range of Lamium maculatum (which can be upright and unspotted) and above that of L purpureum s.s., the corolla size is smaller than that of L. maculatum. Sell & Murrell treat it as a variety of Lamium purpureum, var. incisum.
Jo Parmenter and Bob Leaney
30.01.2021