An edible and medicinal plant, purple dead nettle grows in the wild along a walking and jogging path in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Jana Shea, Alamy Most people walking through ...

Though Lamium bifidum resembles the white dead-nettle, it is botanically more related to the hoe nettle (Lamium amplexicaule), a weed with small flowers and a purple-spotted bloom. Lamium bifidum’s ...

I have purple deadnettle all over my yard. It is a weed with shallow roots, so it’s not too difficult to remove from a garden bed—in other words, I don’t have anything against it.

When I saw on social media that stinging nettle is suddenly the hot medicinal plant, I asked myself: Do they really mean the bitter herb that I used to use as a “witches’ potion” at children ...

Among these common invaders, a few weeds like henbit (Lamium amplexicaule), purple dead nettle, (Lamium purpureum), and ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) can be particularly troublesome, especially ...

Heart Failure and Chronic Venous Insufficiency In a review article, results from a small study supported the potential use of nettle herb juice for heart failure (HF) and chronic venous insufficiency ...

Red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) is one of the most common wild dead-nettles found across Britain and Ireland. Also known as purple dead-nettle, this annual has pinky-purple flowers growing in ...

As stated in previous articles, Nettle (Urtica dioica) is a powerful anti-histamine herb and is to used during allergy season to help regulate the body’s response to allergens. The leaves are prepared ...

This can cause pain or other problems urinating. According to one 2013 study, men with BPH who took nettle extract had fewer clinical symptoms than those who didn’t. Nettle may also help support ...

For the casual observer, those Indiana farm fields of purple might look kind of pretty, but farmers know that henbit and purple deadnettle are just weeds that need controlled. A mild winter allowed ...