1593 Lamium amplexicaule L.

This nowadays widespread species is considered to originate from the Mediterranean region and W. Asia from where it has spread as a weed to most of Europe, E. Asia, N. and S. America, Australia and New Zealand. lts present distribution is discontinuous circumpolar (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 240 and map 232). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1978, map p. 377.