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Red dead-nettle
Lamium purpureum
Importance
Increasingly common in winter cereals, possibly encouraged by minimal cultivation techniques.
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1. Cotyledons are borne on long stalks with backward directed lobes at the base of the leaf.
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2. The first true leaves have shallow teeth, branched veins and are hairy and oval in outline.
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3. An annual weed of erect habit, bearing small pinky-red flowers.
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