Photographs: Sherkin Island, Co. Cork

Cut-leaved Dead-nettle Lamium hybridum Caochneantóg dhiosctha Family: Lamiaceae Flowering: March-October. Annual. Introduced. Whorls of pink-purple 2-lipped flowers with few or no hairs inside the corolla. The opposite leaves are irregularly deep-toothed with truncate bases. A slender, branched, more/less erect plant. Height 10-30cm. Found on dry, fertile soils in gardens, arable land and on waste ground. Less frequent in central and western Ireland. Similar: Red Dead-nettle, Lamium purpureum

Cut-leaved Dead-nettle, Lamium hybridum, Caochneantóg dhiosctha