Lamium

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Noun1.Lamium - genus of Old World herbs: dead nettlesLamium - genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
family Labiatae, family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, mint family - a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary
dead nettle - any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips
Lamium album, white dead nettle - European dead nettle with white flowers
henbit, Lamium amplexicaule - Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers
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Plant new beds through a porous planting sheet disguised with gravel or cover ground plants such as lamium and vinca.
Once the soil is clear, plant bare areas with ground-hugging plants like lamium and vinca or cover it with a 2in-3in blanket of bark chips.
1: If it is brown in the centre, remove the small dead branches and cut off a few lower branches so that you can underplant it with ground cover plants which tolerate dry shade, such as wild geranium, (cranesbill), and lamium.
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