Been looking at pictures on google and went back today to check my plant I had named as
Galeopsis angustifolia (Red Hemp-nettle) the other day. As I had expected my plant is
Galeopsis ladanum (Broad-leaved Hemp-nettle), a species new to me. Also the first record in Ireland for a long time.
I had two plants on the margin of a stubble field at Craan Upper, if they hadn't been flowering I would never have noticed the plants. Both had their tops cut off when the crop was harvested. Compared with
Galeopsis bifida (Bifid Hemp-nettle) and
Galeopsis tetrahit (Common Hemp-nettle), which both have stiff prickly hairs to the touch, Broad-leaved Hemp-nettle feels soft to the touch, the flowers are more than twice as large as the other two hemp-nettles.
Above: one of the Broad-leaved Hemp-nettles in the stubble field. Below: margin of stubble field where the Broad-leaved Hemp-nettle was found.
Below: looking across stubble field to margin where the Broad-leaved Hemp-nettle was seen.
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