Marrubium vulgare   White Horehound

 

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This grows in a patch opposite the half-way house tramway station on Llandudno. It has a superficially similar appearance to the common Black Horehound Ballota nigra. The Hore in horehound is a corruption of hoar indicating the hoariness of the leaves and stem - not obvious in this photo.

Great Orme, North Wales, 10th June 2004

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