Lamium maculatum ‘Shell Pink’ has beautiful green heart-shaped, scalloped leaves with white diamond centers. Also called Spotted Dead Nettle, it produces loads of pale pink, hooded flowers in April with intermittent bloom until frost. Lamium ‘Shell Pink’ is a good, stoloniferous, evergreen, perennial ground cover for shade.

Lamium ‘Shell Pink’ prefers partial to full shade and moist, but well-drained soil. It resents high humidity. A cool season plant, it looks its best early in the season. It may be trimmed back to encourage fresh growth.