Nettle tea
Nettle tea it cures diseases and inflammations of the urinary system, and also urinary retentions. It has a slightly laxative effect, being recommended in depurative remedies.
Nettle-tree
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Nettle-tree (Celtis) - Trees of the Elm order, natives of temperate countries, much mentioned in books, and introduced to Britain many years, but have never made much way with us, ...
Nettleleaf velvetberry, Nettleleaf vervain
Stachytarpheta urticifolia (syn. S. cayennensis)
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Nettle
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common name for the Urticaceae, a family of fibrous herbs, small shrubs, and trees found chiefly in the tropics and subtropics.
Nettles can engulf borders and rough ground in a short space of time, competing with garden plants for water and nutrition and giving an uncared-for look. Control of pernicious weeds such as nettles is challenging, but possible.
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Additional Comments: The Romans treated rheumatic conditions by flaying their joints with fresh nettles so as to stimulate blood circulation. Nettles are a good source of chlorophyll, and are a traditional spring tonic.
Deadnettle
Free-blooming dead nettles enliven difficult places in sun or shade. From spring on, whorls of brightly colored two-lipped flowers bloom abundantly on square stems.
Wood Nettle
Laportea canadensis
The stems of wood nettle have stinging hairs.
Dead Nettle (Lamium maculatum)
There's nothing 'dead' about this beauty; the leaves of its many varieties have a silvery sheen that nearly glows in shade.
Nettles
Family: N.O. Urticanceae
The Nettle tribe, Urticaceae, is widely spread over the world and contains about 500 species, mainly tropical, though several, like our common Stinging Nettle, occur widely in temperate climates.
(nettle family)
TOXICITY RATING: Low. Local irritation is the most common sign which shortly resolves on its own.
A nettles herbal infusion packet is included in the Herbal Medicine Making Kit. In the course, you use two awesome herb books to journal this extraordinary herb.
Stinging Nettle
Common Names: Great stinging Nettle, Common Nettle
Genus: Urtica
Species: dioica
Parts Used: roots and leaves ...
Stinging Nettle
Urtica dioica L.
Family: Urticaceae, Nettle
Genus: Urtica ...
Lamium (Deadnettle)
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Lamium would be my suggestion - especially the pink ones - they do spread and you will have a sea of pink on top of the white/green leaves - they last for quit a while and then will rebloom in the season.
Purple Dead Nettle, Lamium purpureum
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This variety of the nettle leafed bellflower has double, white flowers that make broad bells having spiky flared lips. They may be held slightly pendulously or be more horizontal, standing out from the upright, hairy, flowering stem.
Common name: Blue Nettle, Nettle Leaved Strobilanthes
Botanical name: Strobilanthes attenuata Family: Acanthaceae (Ruellia family)
Synonyms: Pteracanthus urticifolius
Blue Nettle is a sticky-hairy perennial subshrub growing up to 1.
Common Coleus, Painted Nettle, Garden Coleus
With colorful leaves, Coleus are perfect for providing constant brightness in shaded and partly-shaded areas.
Blue to white nettle-like flowers bloom in racemes in summer, but are not showy and tend to visually detract from the attractiveness of the plants.
Noteworthy characteristics: May be overwintered indoors where not hardy.
Members of the Stinging Nettle family are herbs with simple, usually opposite leaves and occasionally squarish, usually hairy stems. The greenish or brownish flowers are mostly unisexual with male and female flowers on the same or different plants.
( Album Deadnettle )
Vigorous perennial grown for its attractive, mid-green leaves zoned with silver markings. This shade-loving trailer is at home in the hanging basket or as a ground cover.
Nettle
Urtica spp.
MEDICINAL: The plant is used for treating high blood pressure, gout, PMS, rheumatism, and ending diarrhea, scurvy, liver and prostate problems. Externally it is used as a compress to treat neuralgia and arthritis.
Dead Nettle
Lamium maculatum
Lamium is an excellent ground cover perennial for shady areas, grown largely for its spreading foliage and colorful flowers.
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Deadnettle - Lamium
Henbit Deadnettle - Lamium amplexicaule
Devil's Bite - Veratrum viride
Devil's Darning Needle - Clematis virginiana
Devil's Hair - Clematis virginiana
Devil's Plague - Daucus carota
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Flame Nettle has multi-colour leaves that can be yellow and bronze splashed.
Euonymus is a bushy evergreen shrub with leaves splashed in pale yellow.
Spotted Laurel has shiny green leaves with yellow spots.
Red Deadnettle Lamium purpureum
Short-fruited Willow Herb Epilobium obscurum
Smooth Cat's-ear Hypochaeris glabra ...
Our Dead Nettle (or Deadnettle) lives underneath a between fence & rainbarrel. It prefers part shade but will also survive in deep shade.
Stinging nettles. Very similar in size and shape to those in North America. Keep well clear of them.
70 (120)cm, Nettle-leafed Bellflower, growing in woods on usually clay soils. Leafy panicles of broadly bell shaped, deep blue-purple flowers until late. Excellent solitary perennial, easy. VI-VIII.
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Carolina Horsenettle, Horsenettle,Carolina
Species:
Solanum carolinense ...
European stinging nettle Urtica dioica
European swallow-wort Cynanchum rossicum
European water-clover; water shamrock Marsilea quadrifolia
European white birch Betula pendula
European yellow iris, yellow flag, water flag Iris pseudacorus ...
Cotton-grass, Common Couch, Common Cow-wheat, Common Cudweed, Common Dodder, Common Dog Violet, Common Duckweed, Common Evening Primrose, Common Field Speedwell, Common Figwort, Common Fleabane, Common Fumitory, Common Gromwell, Common Hemp-nettle, ...
In Labiate plants, as the dead-nettle (Lamium), the flowers are produced in the axil of each of the foliage leaves of the plant, and they appear as if arranged in a simple whorl of flowers.
macrophyllus), Blue Bead Lily (Clintonia borealis), Goldthread (Coptis trifolia), Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium), Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium maculatum), Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum), Orange Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis), Canadian Wood Nettle ...
Guide to Growing Painted Nettles
Coleus blumei
February 12, 2000
Coleus plants are durable and easy to grow. They are best known for their bright colors, and variety of foliage forms.
Garden thug: Spotted deadnettle (Lamium maculatum)
Cultivated cousin: L. m. 'Aureum'
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Lamium orvala ‘Dead nettle'
Lamiums may conjure up visions of over enthusiastic ground cover plants, but here is a Central European species that grows only into a neat, non-invasive clump.
Lamium is an old Latin name of a nettle-like
plant mentioned by Pliny. The family is noted for its fragrant oils (lavender,
rosemary, mint, horehound, thyme etc). Monarda is a North American genus of ...
The ornamental Lamiums go under the common name of Spotted Dead Nettles because the leaves are usually blotched with silver and they somewhat resemble the wild nettles. Among the ornamentals is L.
In the San Juans, Stinging Nettle is common but usually in scattered, thin patches. It is often found at the base of rocky talus slopes where the water it enjoys is pushed to the surface.
Clusters of tubular mid-blue lilac or white flowers appear on robust red-tinged stems in July and August among nettle-like, bristly mid-green leaves. In former days this nettle-leaved bellflower was widely used for treating throat infections.
Datura stramonium (Solanaceae) - This member of the Tomato family shares many of the proprties of its relatives "Nightshade" and "Horse Nettle".
Stachys coccinea (Texas Betony, Scarlet Hedge Nettle)
Stachys macrantha (Big Betony)
Stachys officinalis (Common Hedgenettle, Betony)
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There are some 300 species of Stachys, also known as betonies, hedge nettles and woundworts. Most are herbaceous perennials, although a few are small shrubs.
Although members of the nettle family, plants in this genus do not have stinging hairs[235].
Habitats
Moist or shady ground[43]. Alluvial or moist, deciduous woods, swamps, bogs, marshes, wet meadows and ditches from sea level to 1800 metres[270].
Several are prized ornamental garden plants (such as Lamium maculatum; spotted dead-nettle). A few have had minor usage in herbal medicine (such as Lamium album; white dead-nettle).
Cyclamen hederifolium 'Nettleton Silver' is a seed strain developed by the UK's Alan Martin that is composed of mostly silver leaves that emerge after the white flowers finish in fall.
Cyclamen hederifolium 'Pearlentippich' has white flowers.
Foliage plants that have stripes or speckles, such as lungwort, hosta and dead nettle, tend to grow well in the shade and provide a striking interplay between light and dark.
Several coastal peoples used the firs medicinally. They boiled the bark with stinging nettle for a tonic and for bathing and treated colds with a tea made from the needles.
Distribution
Restricted to a small area between Mongarlowe (Nettletons Creek) and Nerriga
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Supposedly, one can freeze small cubes of juice obtained from the stems for future use. Pain from insect bites, nettle stings, burns, sprains, ringworm, and various skin diseases may be relieved by application.
Other plants that attract butterfly larva include leadplant (Amorpha canescens), clover, hackberry, elm, plantain, snapdragon, nettles and willows.
See: Butterfly Gardening--Nectar Sources
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Solenostemon scutellarioides, Coleus blumei verschaffeltii, Coleus scutellarioides
Family: Lamiaceae / Labiatae
Coleus hybridus, Painted nettle ...
It can be found growing throughout the mountain forests of the Japanese island of Honshu. The specific epithet urticifolia refers to the nettle like foliage. It's also very easy to propagate from stem cuttings and by division.
Lamium maculatum Spotted Dead Nettle
Marrubium incanum Silver Horehound *
Opuntia humifusa Prickly Pear
Ornamental Grasses
Phlomis fruticosa Jerusalem Sage *
Polygonatum species Solomon's Seal
Pulmonaria species Lungwort ...
Lamium maculatum [Spotted Dead Nettle] Common Name List
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Leucanthemum × superbum [Shasta Daisy] Common Name List
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Lithodora diffusa 'Grace Ward' [Grace Ward Lithodora] Common Name List ...
An all-purpose spray for fungal prevention can be made from a "weak tea" of nettles, comfrey, yarrow or horseradish.
Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)
Stock (Matthiola incana)
Stonecrop (Sedum species)
Strawberry cactus (Ferocactus setispinus)
Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)
Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa)
Strawflower, straw flower (Helichrysum species) ...
 See also: Green, May, Grass, Pink, Lamium
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