Flourishing spring weed

Clare had foot surgery again last week — this has been quite the saga — and we took a walk/scoot around the block. This “field” of
     “dead nettle”
     aka “henbit deadnettle”
     aka “greater henbit”      
     aka “henbit dead-nettle”
     aka “common henbit”
     (aka Lamium amplexicaule)
was in the front yard of a nearby home. Pretty, perhaps, but it’s a nuisance. Not a total surprise, since it’s in the Mint/Korean Mint family (Lamiaceae).

» Missouri Botanical Garden lists this among “Winter Annual Weeds”
» Lamium amplexicaule at Wikipedia
» Images at PhytoImages.siu.edu (not a secure https site)

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Looking back
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 3 years ago: “Painted; toilet out [Filler]”
 4 years ago: “End-of-March: Forsythia”
 5 years ago: “Redux in B&W”
 6 years ago: “Where did *you* come from?”
 7 years ago: “Fuel”
 8 years ago: “Yum!”
 9 years ago: “‘Hot Lips’ … and more thrips”
10 years ago: “Harbinger of spring”
11 years ago: “Geometric shapes in the Library”
12 years ago: “A Game of ‘Cat and Mouse’”