Stems erect or trailing and stoloniferous. Leaves more or less ovate, to about 8 cm long, 6 cm wide, white-striped (spotted in some cultivars), long-stalked. Flower clusters 4-5, bracted, well spaced, each of 4-8 flowers. Flowers with calyx having teeth to 1 cm long. Corolla pink to reddish or purple, occasionally white; summer.
Eurasia to N Africa
Grown as a range of variegated-leaf cultivars, occasionally with an unusual flower colour.
Source: (2002). Lamiaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Flowers white.
White-flowered plants without the variegations are probably referable to L. album L.,White Dead Nettle.
Leaves yellow with a white centre. Flowers pink.
Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver'
Leaves green-edged with a silver centre. Flowers pink.
Leaves mottled with white. Flowers large and prolific, pink.
Lamium maculatum 'White Nancy'
Leaves green-edged with a silver centre. Flowers white.