Lamium purpureum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 579. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae cultis." RCN: 4222.

Lectotype (Mennema in Rechinger, Fl. Iranica 150: 579. 1982): Herb. Linn. No. 733.11 (LINN) .

Current name: Lamium purpureum L. ( Lamiaceae).

Note: Lamium purpureum was treated as the generitype by Britton & Brown (Ill. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 3: 121. 1913; see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 376. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Green’s choice (Prop. Brit. Bot.: 165. 1929) of L. album L.