Stinging Nettle
Scientific Name:Urtica dioica


NOTES: Entire plant covered with dense, stinging hairs. Opposite, arrow-shaped, toothed leaves. Tiny greenish flower clusters grow from leaf axils. This species has not been observed recently at Rowe Woods."

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Stinging Nettle
Genus species: Urtica dioica
Common Name: Stinging 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
Introduced Native
Category:Unknown
Identified by:M. Becus
Months in Bloom:  
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