Red Dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum)

Family: Lamiaceae

Common name: Red Dead-nettle

Scientific name: Lamium purpureum

Date taken: 26/2/2023, 1/4/2023 (white form)

Notes: Common weed found in cultivated fields, roadsides, and wastelands. 

Note 2: I recently came across a white form of the species (not to be confused with White Dead-nettle Lamium album). The plants were found growing side-by-side with plants with normal pigmentation, which is nice for direct comparison. The white form not only lack pigmentation on the corolla of flowers, but also have bright green instead of reddish young leaves. The plants were also slightly smaller, so I suspect the mutation might carry a slight disadvantage one way or the other.