Spotted dead-nettle

Family Lamiaceae. Description: A native wild perennial plant. Widely distributed in Crimea, the Caucasus, and Southern Europe.

This species has long been known in horticulture as a groundcover plant with semi-evergreen leaves. Root system is superficial. Stems are prostrate, strongly branching, rooting spontaneously at the nodes. Fairly fragile, leafy flowering stems rise to a height of up to 20 cm. The wild form has very beautiful serrated dark-green leaves with a silvery patch along the central vein. Pinkish-purple flowers appear in early summer and adorn the plant for more than a month. Inflorescence - a whorl. The plant is fully winter-hardy.