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Home Page | Next Page The heart-shaped, blunt-toothed leaves grow in opposite pairs. The botanical name for dead-nettles, Lamium, probably refers to the long throat of the flower as laimos is Greek for throat. In the past red and white dead-nettles have been cooked like spinach but they're probably don't come into the gourmet class as they've also been used in making pig-swill.
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