WOOD NETTLE

Laportea canadensis

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These are the female flowers up top.


FAMILY:
Nettle Family (Urticaceae)

DESCRIPTION:
A thick-stemmed plant with stinging hairs and leaves 3 - 8" long, ovate and coarsely toothed. The female flowers (shown right) are in spindly clusters at the top and the male (below) in short clusters in the lower leaf axils. The plant grows from 1 - 4' tall.

FLOWERS:
July to September

HABITAT:
Low, moist rich woods and streambanks.

OTHER INFORMATION:
The similar Stinging Nettle are in shorter groups up the plant and its leaves are heart-shaped where it attaches to the stem. Even though this is not the Stinging Nettle, it still stings!

The male flowers have no petals, forming large clusters in between the leaves

 


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