False Nettle
Scientific Name:Boehmeria cylindrica


NOTES: Lacks stinging hairs.

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False Nettle
Genus species: Boehmeria cylindrica
Common Name: False Nettle
Family Name: Urticaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs; leaves various, simple, stipulate in most; flowers small and greenish, mostly unisexual and plants monoecious or dioecious, regular, in axillary or terminal clusters; fruit an achene.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:White
CNC Habitat: Krippendorf Arboretum
Backyard Habitat
Identified by:A. Swanson
Months in Bloom:  
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