Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 579 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae cultis."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 740 [secondary reference]

common name: Purple Dead-nettle [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 552 [secondary reference]

common name: Red Dead-nettle [n/a]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Lamiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 440 APC [secondary reference]

common name: Red Dead Nettle [n/a]

• APC Dist.: NSW (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

common name: Red Deadnettle [n/a]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 52 [secondary reference]

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