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Family Icon Family: Urticaceae
Area Icon Area: Albania
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Categories: Herb Leaves

Urtica dioica

Nettle

Common nettle is a weedy perennial plant known for its stinging leaves. It grows about 2 meters in height.

The toothed leaves are borne oppositely along the stem, and both the stems and leaves are covered with numerous stinging and non-stinging trichomes (plant hairs).

The tiny green or white flowers are borne in dense whorled clusters in the leaf axils and stem tips and are wind-pollinated.

The fruits are small achenes, and the plants produce copious amounts of seeds.

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