A European deadnettle with silver-marked leaves and butter-yellow spring flowers, grown for shady groundcover but invasive in Pacific Northwest forests.
Description
Yellow archangel forms a low spreading carpet of soft oval leaves splashed silver between green veins. In spring, short whorled spikes carry hooded butter-yellow flowers in axils up the stem.
Cultivation
A tough shade-tolerant groundcover, yellow archangel quickly covers difficult ground but escapes gardens via root fragments dumped in green waste. It is regulated as a noxious weed in several US states.
Uses
Once popular in shaded English cottage gardens, the variegated cultivar Herman pride is still sold, while gardeners in invaded regions are urged to plant non-spreading alternatives.
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