When it comes to groundcovers, nothing beats the colorful beauty of dead nettles in the garden. Let’s have a look at the 20 Best Lamium Varieties!
Lamium is native to Asia and Europe and is called red dead-nettle, purple archangel, purple dead-nettle. If you want to grow a beautiful plant that can cover your garden without being so invasive, choose from our guide on 20 Best Lamium Varieties!
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Best Lamium Varieties
Lamium is grown for both its pretty foliage and beautiful flowers. It is also ideal for rock gardens, border edges, and even containers besides being an excellent choice for an ornamental ground cover.
1. White Nancy
USDA Zones: 3-9
Also popular as the Spotted Dead Nettle, it is a beautiful evergreen ground cover that usually grows upto 5-8 inches tall and can spread over time using its sprawling stems. It also grows milky white clusters of tiny, hooded blooms.
2. Wootton Pink
USDA Zones: 3-8
With its pale pink-colored flowers that bloom from late spring to early summer on top of the variegated leaves, ‘Wootton Pink’ is definitely one of the best varieties of lamium. This plant also provides nectar and pollen for bees and butterflies.
3. Orchid Frost
USDA Zones: 3-9
‘Orchid Frost’ is an ornamental groundcover with attractive silver leaves and two-lipped pink-colored flowers, mostly grown in shady spaces. The blooms cover the foliage in summer and then come back in the autumn.
4. Yellow Archangel
USDA Zones: 4-9
This perennial, belonging to the mint family, is also called Golden Dead-Nettle, or Yellow archangel. With pretty yellow flowers and silver-streaked leaves, the plant does well in medium to dry soil and thrives best in partial shade.
5. Purple Dragon
USDA Zones: 3-8
This herbaceous perennial is another top choice for a ground cover with its striking silver leaves, having dark green edges, and deep purple-colored flowers. It is also deer and rabbit resistant and can keep most of the pests away.
6. Lamium garganicum
USDA Zones: 3-8
This variety of Lamium looks the part with clusters of flowers on top of the foliage in shades of pink, purple, and white throughout the summer. It is quite valuable because this deadnettle family member is rarely seen.
7. Chequers
USDA Zones: 3-8
Lamium ‘Chequers‘ has heart-shaped scalloped deep green leaves with white-centered spots. It grows beautiful spikes of flowers in shades of dark pink color, rising on top of the foliage from spring to early fall.
8. Shell Pink
USDA Zones: 3-9
It looks most beautiful with clusters of gorgeous spikes of pink-colored flowers above the foliage when planted in masses. The oval leaves are attractive and remain forest green with striking silver stripes all through the season.
9. Red Nancy
USDA Zones: 4-9
With masses of gorgeous spikes of cherry red-colored flowers above the foliage, this plant can make your garden look stunning from spring to early fall. Its oval-shaped leaves remain silver in color with contrasting forest green edges in the season.
10. Beacon Silver Spotted
USDA Zones: 4-8
Beacon Silver Spotted Dead Nettle has clusters of beautiful spikes of rose flowers on top of the foliage from mid-spring to early fall. It has beautiful oval-shaped, silver-colored leaves that contrast well with the blooms.
11. Sterling Silver
USDA Zones: 4-8
A low-growing, semi-evergreen perennial, Sterling Silver is another beautiful groundcover with triangular to oval-shaped, silver-colored spiky leaves that are deeply veined and toothed. The purple flowers bloom all through summer.
12. Pink Pewter
USDA Zones: 3-8
It is most popular for its heart-shaped, silver foliage with narrow green spikes and small salmon-pink blooms that open up in beautiful whorls from late spring to fall. The plant has a longer blooming duration with lovely pink flowers.
13. Cosmopolitan
USDA Zones: 3-8
This variety of Lamium is native to West Asia, North Africa, and Europe. The plant is most suited for xeriscaping as it is drought-tolerant. Cosmopolitan has tiny, contrasting silver-colored leaves with a compact growth habit.
14. Pink Chablis
USDA Zones: 4-8
Another semi-evergreen perennial, most noted for its striking foliage in the shape of hearts in bright green shades and white central stripes. The variety also has cotton candy pink-colored flowers that bloom from late spring all the way to the fall.
15. Cannon’s Gold
USDA Zones: 4-8
Cannon’s Gold is a mat-forming, low grower with chartreuse foliage that could be another good choice to cover your garden. With triangular to oval-shaped, toothed leaves in golden-yellow in color, Cannon’s Gold adorns purple-colored flowers in summer.
16. Lemon Frost
USDA Zones: 3-10
This variety of Lamium looks attractive with its tiny leaves in silver with narrow edges in contrasting green and masses of flowers in purple to pink shades. Lemon Frost is average tolerant of shade once mature.
17. Elizabeth de Haas
USDA Zones: 3-8
This variety of Lamium is noted for its somewhat inconspicuous, two-lipped, small flowers in red, purple, white, or pink shades that bloom from spring to summer. Under optimum growing conditions, this plant can grow very easily.
18. Beedham’s White
USDA Zones: 5-8
This plant features oval-shaped, toothed leaves with a white midrib. Beedham’s White looks most attractive from late spring to early summer, with white flowers that appear at the end of the stem.
19. Anne Greenaway
USDA Zones: 4-8
This variety is one of the most exquisite with silver, green, and mint green-colored foliage. The mauve-colored flowers add much charm during the blooming period. It is an excellent groundcover choice for shaded to partly shaded spaces.
20. Golden Anniversary
USDA Zones: 4-8
This variety has attractive green leaves in an oval shape, with beautiful variegation and silver hue throughout the season. The plant looks gorgeous when planted in groups, during the blooming season with clusters of violet flowers.
