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Last year I had an unidentified weed in my garden, and am looking any bright
ideas as to what it is. No photo thou.

It looks like its in the nettle family,

My guess it will be in the dead nettle family - labiates - you can tell
by the square stems. The 4-nutlet seed head is typical of this family.

with very long spreading stems, that
as soon as they touch the ground they start rooting.
The flowers are pinky colour with the flower head being very nastely spikey.
The stems are also spikey. The seeds are in a nutlet group of 4.

What is it ??.
I thought it might be Large Flowered Hemp Nettle, but its flowers are all
pinky/purpley

The cree[ping nature sounds very like hedge woundwort Stachys sylvatica,
but if it were that I think you would have mentioned its evil smell. The
flowers of hedge woundwort are a purply pink.

The fact that it reminds you of the large flowered hemp nettle suggests
it could be the common hemp nettle, Galeopsis tetrahit, which does have
pink flowers, and also the nastily spiky flowers.

rather poor pic on

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/e...flowers_common
_hemp-nettle.html


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Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/