Missouri Plants Henbit   (Lamium amplexicaule) Tracheophyte: Angiosperm: Dicot: Mint (Lamiaceae) Non-native from Eurasia Habitat: any full sun area. ID Features: purple flowers in spring. Natural History: Henbit is a small spring-flowering plant with leaves that encircle their square stems. The flowers are pink and held upright at the branch tips. It flowers in the early spring and becomes dormant by summer. It grows in any untended area.

The information is from: Missouri Wildflowers by Edgar Denison, 5th Edition, Missouri Department of Conservation, ©1998.