Adding images and «tcolorbox» package

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Kenneth John Odle 2026-06-10 15:53:40 -04:00
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\ksecp{Purple Deadnettle}{\textit{Lamium purpureum} L.}{Lamiaceae}
\noindent{}I have seen this plant my entire life. It is small and unassuming, and I guess most people overlook it. But as a child I was interested in the plants around me and I could not help but notice this one, as it's a charming little plant with scalloped, textured heart-shaped leaves that often overlap and delicate purple flowers on square stems typically of many members of the mint family. Rarely growing taller than twenty centimeters, it's easy for busy humans to overlook, but the bees rarely do. If you are patient you can see bees emerge from the flowers coated with the plant's bright red pollen.
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{kbox}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{lamium_purpureum}
\caption{\textit{Lamium purpureum} L.}
\end{kbox}
\label{lampur1}
\end{figure}
It is edible, although I have never tried it as I typically see it growing by roadsides and I'm not sure how polluted those environments are. (Leaded gasoline was still a thing when I was a child, and I'm not aware of any studies that have examined how much of it is still in the soil along roads.) They are apparently good raw in salads, but can also be added to fried dishes. It also has medicinal properties, as a salve made with the plant is supposedly good at soothing skin irritations.
The common name ``dead nettle'' refers to its superficial resemblance to true nettles (\textit{Urtica}) but it lacks the stinging hairs of plants of that genus, hence ``dead.'' It is also sometimes called ``red deadnettle'' or ``purple archangel.''

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\usepackage[object=vectorian]{pgfornament}
\usepackage[english]{babel} % Correcting hyphenation issues
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{float} % Allow floats in multicol environments
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

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\section*{{#1}}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{{#1}}
}
% Where are our images?
\graphicspath{{images/}}
% Custom boxes for «tcolorbox» package
\newtcolorbox{kbox}{
colback=white,
sharp corners=all,
boxrule=0.75pt,
colframe=gray8,
}

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\cleardoublepage % Delete if TOC runs to 2n pages
\setcounter{page}{1}
\pagestyle{empty}
\listoffigures
%% Begin Contents
\pagenumbering{arabic}