NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Solanaceae. 



Lamium 

 purpureum 

 Magenta 

 May- 

 September 



Hemp Nettle 



Galeopsis 

 Tetrahit 

 Magenta- 

 purple 

 July- 

 September 



Like the foregoing, also naturalized, the 

 leaves more heart-shaped, roundish, or ob- 

 long, and all of them stemmed. Flowers 

 magenta. Less common, from N. Eng. to 

 Pa. 



An annual, with spreading branches, 

 and several circling clusters of small pale 

 magenta flowers (the lower lip purple- 

 striped) gathered at the stems of the floral 

 leaves. Name from the Greek, weasellike, 

 from the fancied resemblance of the flower 

 to the head of a weasel. The tiny flowers 

 white-hairy, the flower-cup bristly. Leaves ovate, 

 toothed, hairy, and pointed. Plant-stem square, very 

 hairy, with hairs pointing downward, and conspicuously 

 swollen below the joints. Cross-fertilized by the bum- 

 blebees and smaller bees, Bombus vagans a most frequent 

 visitor. 10-18 inches high. Common in waste places 

 and gardens, everywhere. Naturalized from Europe. 



Hairy perennial herbs, with tubular bell- 

 shaped flowers, clustered in circles, 6-10 

 in each circle, and forming a terminal 

 spike. The upper part of the light ma- 

 genta-purple flower and its green cup (ca- 

 lyx) hairy. Leaves stemless, or the lower 

 ones short-stemmed, ovate lance-shaped 

 or longer, scallop- toothed, downy-hairy, rather obtuse, 

 and rounded at the base. Plant-stem square, 1-3 feet 

 high. Wet grounds, N. Eng. to Pa. , and west. 



Like the foregoing, but with mostly 



smooth flowers, leaves sometimes smooth, 

 joiia var. aspera 

 Magenta= and nearly all distinctly stemmed; the 



purple plant-stem taller, commonly smooth on 



Ju| y- the sides, but stiff-hairy at the angles. 



The flower-spike slender. Stem, 2-4 feet 

 high. Common on wet grounds, everywhere. 



NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Solanacece. 



Mostly herbs with alternate leaves and regular, perfect 

 flowers ; the five-lobed corolla with generally five sta- 

 mens and a very small stigma. Foliage strongly scented. 

 410 



Hedge Nettle 



Stachys 

 palustris 

 Magenta=pur= 

 pie, or paler 

 July- 

 September 



