Red Deadnettle

In flower in January: the Red Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum). It is a little annual plant that grows in vegetable gardens and in corn fields out of crop.

And also elsewhere, in a stack of wood.

Or next to a pile of rocks.


















All plants of the Lamiaceae family have foursquare stems, opposite leaves and flowers with a speckled lower lip.

Cowslip

Among fallen Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) leaves...

...in six weeks the Cowslip (Primula veris) will flower!