Re: Mystery ground cover
Marge concurred with me about it being Lamiastrum, and I concur with
Marge about it being classified under Lamium! You might have L.
'Florentinum'.
You might try feeling the stems and crushing a leaf.
Janet
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From Encyclopedia of Perennials by Christopher Woods:
Cultivation [of genus Lamium]: Grow in moist but well-drained soil in
partial shade. Trim back after flowering to keep plants orderly.
Sometimes prone to rust diseases. The yellow archangel, Lamium
galeobdolon, is often highly invasive.
L. galeobdolon. Yellow archangel. 1-2 ft. A rapidly spreading, sprawling
plant with square stems and 3-in.-long, pointed, egg-shaped, coarsely
toothed leaves. Whorls of yellow, lipped flowers appear in late spring
and summer. Tolerates full shade in hot summer areas and less shade in
cooler areas. 'Florentinum' ('Variegatum') is silver variegated but with
the midrib and the margins green; 'Herman's Pride' is a little less
invasive than the species and has striking silver-flecked leaves that
are a more attractive attribute than the yellow flowers. Zones
3-9....Galeobdolon comes from the Greek, gale, "weasel," and obdolos,
"disagreeable odor," a reference to the smell of the plant when crushed.
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