You may have noticed as you travel the countryside that some of the corn and bean fields turn purple in the spring. These are the plants that are doing it. Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) and purple dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum). Nobody plants them but they are another source of purple beauty every spring. By summer they will be replaced by beautiful green fields of corn (Zea mays).
This is at South River Road, April 26, 2009.
link to henbit (Lamium amplexicaule):
link to purple dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum):
link to purple dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum):
link to corn (Zea mays):
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