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Deadnettle Plants for Pollinators, A ground cover that fills shady spots, benefits honey bees.
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Deadnettle Plants for Pollinators, A ground cover that fills shady spots, benefits honey bees.



Another spotlight plant that is a benefit to our pollinators.

If you want to follow along as I post other pollinator friendly plants, here is the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqdtSk5Acc&list=PL0BtJyPt4SZ8jIc2OpLfFqNrXtYeYwFrG

It’s edible!
https://www.ediblewildfood.com/purple-deadnettle.aspx

Missouri Department of Conservation:
https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/dead-nettle

Brooklyn Botanic Garden:
https://www.bbg.org/article/purple_deadnettle

My Deadnettle was already here, I didn’t have to plant it.
If you want some on your property, it’s likely very easy to dig it up and transplant it.
If you want to grow your own from seed, this is an affiliate link to Deadnettle seeds: https://amzn.to/3VUEIaF

23 Comments

  2. @redfish440

    Thanks Fred! I’ve got some of that in my yard, I didn’t know what it was, no mow April or May for me

  3. @nikigores8774

    Fred, thanks for sharing yet again. You’re an endless source of great information and my most trusted honey bee Wikipedia! So profoundly thankful for your generosity! 🙏👏🙌😊

  4. @jkd0114

    Good stuff! This plant is also edible. Have you observed the color of pollen it produces? This plant looks very similar to a few others you may see (henbit)

  8. @Katied2017

    I have these in my yard now, excellent! Another reason I just talked myself out of mowing!

  9. @jamesbarron1202

    I wish you could one day do an interview with a horticulturist who knows the very best tree species that produce the maximum amount of food for honeybees. I know the majority of them that will make it in my area. They better be very drought and heat tolerant here in Texas. I lost 2 pecan trees last summer in that record heat and drought, that I planted in the 1980s, and also lost many other big limbs in my pecan orchard. I just planted 100 more pollinator trees this spring. If 80 survive the summer I'll be happy. It's a lot of work weeding and watering so many trees. I planted 70 last year. Lost about 15 of those to drought, gophers and moles. The moles don't eat them but they go after the wet soil when you water and dig up the roots and also leave air pockets that dry the roots. They thrive in this sand. I'm fixing to weed around my little trees today. Last week I sold some crape myrtles to a lady who moved here from Africa and she said Texas feels hotter. I never would've thought that.

  13. @ahmedbounce3053

    Fred Are the NPK Fertilizers bad for the pollinators specially the honeybees? I'm growing Zinnias at my place and need to feed them just not sure about the fertilizers, Thanks for your great work to help us!

  14. @kennith.

    Thank you Fred. I would be grateful if you could also include some tree species that would do well in your Ag zone when you add to the series.

  15. @frederickorcutt9112

    I have a handful of these in a few different areas on my property. I saw some wild honey bees picking dandelions first and jumping over them. I'll be keeping an extra eye out to see if they forage on these when I'm around.

  16. @thomasplummer2673

    Thanks Fred, my dead nettle came in about 3 or 4 weeks ago, even before the dandelions. Great stuff. I love your photograph!

  18. @saintjohncoleman8602

    Thanks to dead nettle starting blooming in December in vast acres of empty agricultural fields my bees start pulling in its red pollen before the red maples and start brooding up right at winter solstice here in SE VA

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