There is also a small nymph, which is black and cream, and an adult pied shieldbug, which is black and white: it is as if it is watching over its offspring – tiny orange-coloured nymphs that are in the flowers of the white dead-nettle. ❋ Unknown (2011)
They are among the earliest of bees on the wing in spring, waiting only for plants such as lungwort and red dead-nettle to come into flower. ❋ Unknown (2011)
On either side of this bridge, vehicles were drawn over to the strip of white dead-nettle that served as the verge. ❋ George, Elizabeth (1996)
White dead-nettle had scattered its blossoms in tiny petals around its roots, as though presaging winter™s snow. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (1988)
They were now on the high uplands by the coast, driving between the beautiful banks, which were starred with primroses and stitchwort and red dead-nettle and a dozen other bright and tender-hued firstlings of the year. ❋ Various (N/A)
This year has been remarkable for two plants so far, a sort of varnished green ground-weed, with a small white flower, and a dull crimson dead-nettle; both of them have covered the ground in places in huge patches. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
The family of the labiates seems to be essentially rich in terminal pelories, as for instance in the wild sage or _Salvia_ and the dead-nettle or _Lamium_. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
With _Lamium maculatum_ or spotted dead-nettle, the affinity is so close that even Bentham united the two in a single species, considering the ordinary dead-nettle only as a variety of the dappled purple type. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
Another instance may be quoted; it has been pointed out by Grant Allen, and refers to the dead-nettle or Lamium album. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
Passing up the Lauterbrünnen valley, I came upon some wild raspberries and quantities of the fine, large-flowered sage, _Salvia glutinosa_, with its yellow flowers, in shape like those of the dead-nettle, but much bigger. ❋ Unknown (1888)
The common dead-nettle (Fig. 59) takes a great deal of trouble in order that the bee may carry off its pollen. ❋ Arabella B. Buckley (1884)
Salvia (Fig. 60) is shaped just like the dead-nettle, with a hood and a broad lip, but instead of four stamens it has only two, the other two being shrivelled up. ❋ Arabella B. Buckley (1884)
There is another flower, called the Salvia, which belongs to the same family as our dead-nettle, and I think you will agree with me that its way of dusting the bee's back is most clever. ❋ Arabella B. Buckley (1884)
Tell me, has not the Salvia, while remaining so much the same shape as the dead-nettle, devised a wonderful contrivance to make use of the visits of the bee? ❋ Arabella B. Buckley (1884)
If the bee went from a dead-nettle to a geranium, the dust would be lost, for it would be of no use to any other plant but a dead - nettle. ❋ Arabella B. Buckley (1884)
In the stony African Karoo, where every plant is eagerly sought out for food by the scanty local fauna, there are tubers which exactly resemble the pebbles around them; and I have little doubt that our perfectly harmless English dead-nettle secures itself from the attacks of browsing animals by its close likeness to the wholly unrelated, but well-protected, stinging-nettle. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
And then again they struck into a by-lane with tall hedges, the banks underneath which were bright with stitchwort and speedwell and white dead-nettle. ❋ William Black (1869)
(Stellaria Holosteum), and the yellow dead-nettle (Lamium Galeobdolon), all distinct and well-contrasted flowers. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
A red dead-nettle, a mauve thistle, white and pink bramble flowers, a white strawberry, a little yellow tormentil, a broad yellow dandelion, narrow hawkweeds, and blue scabious, are all in flower in the lane. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
