Lamium purpureum

English: Red Deadnettle - Purple Deadnettle - Purple Archangel - Velikdenche
Nederlands: Paarse dovenetel
Español: Lamio púrpura - Ortiga roja - Ortiga muerta roja
Français: Lamier pourpre
Deutsch: Purpurrote Taubnessel

Family: Lamiaceae - Mint family
Flowering time: March-December (throughout the year)
Height: 5–30cm
Altitude: to 2500m
Colour: purple-pink, red purple
Flowers: 10-18mm long, with a straight corolla-tube
Leaves: oval, blunt-toothed, stalked, fine hairs
Habitat: roadsides, waste places, cultivated land, gardens, disturbed soils
Distribution: almost everywhere in Europe






Notes: Lamium purpureum is a short-lived annual, but seeds can germinate at almost any time of the year. This means it can also produce flowers throughout the year, including in the winter. This allows bees to gather pollen and nectar from this plant when few other sources are available.

Related key words: Kralingse Bos Rotterdam, insect, Andrena haemorrhoa, bee plant, Labiatae

Scutellaria alpina

English: Scutellaria alpina
Nederlands: Alpine skullcap
Español: Tercianaria alpina - Escutelaria alpina - Hierba de la celada - Tercianera
Français: Toque des Alpes
Deutsch: Alpen-Helmkraut

Family: Labiatae - Mint family
Flowering time: June-August
Height: 10-30cm
Altitude: 1600-2600m
Colour: lilac-white, blue-violet, purple-white
Leaves: small, veined, oval, toothed, hairy
Habitat: screes, pastures, screes, stony limestone slopes
Distribution: Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Italy, Romania, France and Spain
Synonym: Scutellaria alpina subsp. alpina





Note: ´Scutellaria´ means ´small dish´, refering to the shape of the calyx. Alpine skullcap can be found in the Alps (mainly western Alps), Apennines, Balkans, Pyrenees, Picos de Europa and Sierra Nevada. Scutellaria alpina is on the Red List of vascular flora of Andalucia, classified as ´vulnerable´.

Related key words: alpine plant, Cerler-Ampriú (Benasque), Ezcaurre (Ansó), Peña Telera (Piedrafita de Jaca), Castanesa-Lago Bacibé (Montanuy)

Origanum vulgare

English: Marjoram - Wild Marjoram
Nederlands: Wilde marjolein
Español: Orégano
Français: Marjolaine sauvage - Origan
Deutsch: Oregano

Family: Lamiaceae - Mint family
Flowering time: June-October
Height: 30-80cm
Altitude: to 2000m
Colour: pink, white, purplish red
Habitat: rough dry grassland, stony terrains, sunny places, embankments, roadsides, edges of deciduous forests
Distribution: throughout Europe, except in the far north
Note: A garden plant grown for its aromatic leaves. It attracts many insects like bumblebees and butterflies.





Related key words: Labiatae, vlinderplant, Valle de Añisclo, Waalbanddijk Neerijnen, Viroin vallei, butterfly, moth

Mentha longifolia

English: Horse Mint
Nederlands: Hertsmunt - Bosmunt
Español: Menta de caballo
Français: Menthe à feuilles longues - Menthe sylvestre
Deutsch: Rossminze

Family: Labiatae - Mint family
Flowering time: July-October
Height: 0,30-120cm
Altitude: to 2500m
Colour: pink, lilac, white
Habitat: damp habitats, streams, ditches, acequias, rivers, ponds
Distribution: Most countries of Europe, in a number of countries naturalized.
Note: Nectar plant for many species of butterflies
Synonyms: Mentha spicata susp. longifolia, Mentha sylvestris, Mentha tomentosa, Mentha incana






Related key words: Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Huétor, Alpujarras, Trevélez, Barranco de las Albardas, Puerto de la Ragua, Andalucía, Andalusië, butterfly, insect

Phlomis lychnitis

English: Small Jerusalem sage
Nederlands: Viltig brandkruid
Español: Oreja de liebre - Candelera - Candelaria - Torcidas
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Family: Lamiaceae - Mint family
Flowering time: April-July
Height: to 65cm
Altitude: from 500m
Colour: yellow
Habitat: garrigue, dry, rocky limestone hills
Distribution: Iberian Peninsula and southern France
Notes: Leaves thick, greyish above, white felted beneath. In some countries they are used in flower arrangements. In Spain the leaves were dried and used as wicks for candles and lamps, which explains its name ´candelaria´ in Spanish.



 

Related key words: Alpujarras, finca, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Ronda, Andalucía, Andalusië