Galeopsis tetrahit

Taxonomic note: This species is sometimes taken to include G bifida, but here they are treated as separate.

Photo © Carl Farmer
16 Jul 2003 Portree, Isle of Skye

Frequent in cultivated or recently disturbed ground, also occasionally on stony ground by shore.

Flower c 15-20 mm long

Skye ID: Stem with conspicuous dense spreading hairs. Stem swollen at the leaf-junctions. Flower purple, mauve or white, but not yellow (except in centre). Lowest lobe of flower not or scarcely notched and the dark lines on it not reaching the margin. Compare G bifida.

Other features: Flower-tube not or scarcely exceeding calyx. Skye Galeopsis species are very rough to the touch whereas Dead-nettles (Lamium species) are very soft.

Skye Flora