Common Henbit

Lamium amplexicaule

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Botanical name
Lamium amplexicaule
Also known as
Clasping Henbit, Common Dead-Nettle, Common Henbit, Dead Nettle, Giraffehead, Hen-Bit, Hen-Bit Dead-Nettle, Henbit, Henbit Dead-Nettle, Henbit Deadnettle
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Lamium
Reference
World Flora Online

How to grow Common Henbit

We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.

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Other names for this plant

These names have all been used for Lamium amplexicaule but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.

Galeobdolon amplexicaule Lamiella amplexicaulis Lamiopsis amplexicaulis Pollichia amplexicaulis

Others in Lamium

Lamium × coutinhoi
Lamium × holsaticum
Lamium × schrocteri
Lamium album
White Deadnettle
Lamium album subsp. album
Lamium album subsp. barbatum
Lamium album subsp. crinitum
Lamium maculatum
Spotted Deadnettle

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