Stinging Nettle
Urtica dioica L.
Family: Urticaceae, Nettle
Genus: Urtica ...
Stinging Nettle
Common Names: Great stinging Nettle, Common Nettle
Genus: Urtica
Species: dioica
Parts Used: roots and leaves ...
Yes, the stinging nettle (Urtica dioica.) This is no April Fools joke.
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.
SIGNS: The small, hollow hairs in stinging nettle contain several irritating substances such as histamine (the mediator of some allergic reactions), serotonin, acetylcholine and formic acid (ants contain a high concentration of formic acid).
Stinging nettles. Very similar in size and shape to those in North America. Keep well clear of them.
Stinging nettles are food plants for Peacock butterfly larvae
and to grow stinging nettles because butterflies love all of these as a food resource and some lay their eggs in the hairs of the stinging-nettle leaves.
stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) has elongated flower clusters that are usually branched (Photo: Steve Adkins)
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The stinging nettle is of great benefit to UK wildlife, and its growth is often actively encouraged by conservation groups. It supports over 40 species of insects, including small tortoiseshell and peacock butterflies.
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The perennial stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) is a perennial, herbaceous plant with creeping roots. It is perhaps most troublesome in loose, newly cultivated soil, especially where phosphate levels are high.
Synonym: Urtica gracilis. Urtica dioica. (Stinging Nettle)
Urticaceae (Nettle Family)
Foothills, montane. Streamsides, wetlands, woodlands. Spring.
Opal Lake Trail, July 10, 2010 and Owens Basin Trail, June 13, 2004.
Hoary Stinging Nettle [English]: Urtica dioica subsp. holosericea
Hoary Stinging Nettle [English]: Urtica dioica holosericea
Hoary Stock [English]: Matthiola incana
Hoary Sunray [English]: Leucochrysum albicans ...
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 ...
The White Dead-Nettle owes its name of Nettle to the fact that the plant as a whole bears a strong general resemblance to the Stinging Nettle, for which it may easily be mistaken in the early spring, before it is in bloom; ...
Stinging nettles in the United States include species of Urtica, widely distributed, and Laportea canadensis, a characteristic plant of eastern forests. L. gigas, the Australian nettle tree, reaches 90 ft (27.4 m) in height.
Similar Species: Similar in the stinging nature of the hairs is Stinging Nettle (Tragira urticifolia) which lacks showy flower parts entirely and has toothed but un-lobed leaves.
Synonyms and Common names: Urticae herba, Urticae radix, Stinging nettle, common nettle
German = Grosse brandnetel, French = Grande ortie, Spanish = ortiga, Italian = Grande ortica
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Juice of a single leaf plucked from a rosette & rubbed on a bee sting, abrasion, or stinging nettle burn, can relieve pain because of the malic acid in the plant's juices.
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.
The leaves have stinging hairs, much like stinging nettles to which they are related.
Habitats ...
Other green weeds can also be eaten cooked. Kudzu, for example, is great battered and fried or in stir-frys. Horseweed and stinging nettle are two more plants that can be eaten if the leaves are cooked.
Pilea is a member of the Urticaceae family, which includes such unlikely relatives as Stinging Nettle and tiny-leaved Baby's Tears.
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(Polygala pauciflora), Arrow-leaved Tearthumb (Polygonum sagittatum), Pickerel Reed (Pontederia cordata), Arrowheads (Sagittaria spp.), Bur Reeds (Sparganium spp.), Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), Cattails (Typha spp.), Stinging Nettle (Urtica ...
The common name Dead Nettle refers to plants in this genus having a resemblance to the unrelated stinging nettles (Urtica sp.) but unlike a nettles, do not have stinging hairs and so are harmless or "dead".
They may, for instance, be glandular or stinging, as in the common stinging nettle, where the top of the hair is very brittle, easily breaking off when touched.
Stinging Nettle
Sugar maple, Rock maple, Hard maple
Sweet Pea, Tangier Pea, Everlasting Pea, Caley Pea and Singletary Pea
Tall Fescue
Tobacco and Tree Tobacco
Tung Oil Tree
Various Poppies including Opium Poppy
Water Hemlock or Cowbane ...
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: Nettle, Grass, Green, May, Vegetables
  
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