Gently down the stream

By Miranda1008

No fingers were damaged

..in the taking of this shot.

Because Lamium album, or white dead nettle is, it seems, completely unrelated to the stinging nettle (different plant family).  Well that's a relief.

What else have I managed to dig up about it?  Apparently it's good for treating scrofula (so-called 'King's Evil') and Geoffrey Grigson says its most common country name is Adam-and-Eve-in-the-Bower because if you turn the plant upside down and look under the flower lip the black and gold stamens look like 2 people lying side by side.

Don't lots of couples do that?  :/

Okay, having got that out of the way, I'll just say this is my entry for today's FlowerFriday.  Not a glamorous bloom, nor on the suggested theme of 'glass' I'm afraid (that's water behind it), but I thought it was quietly really beautiful and loved its downy off-white flowers.

That's me for today.  Thanks so much to BikerBear for continuing so faithfully to host this challenge.

Hope Friday's treated you kindly.  Have a great weekend  xx

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