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Common Nettle - Urtica dioica
Medium to tall vigorous often patch forming plant, with stout stolons and square stems. Leaves opposite, heart shaped to lanceolate, toothed and armed with stinging hairs. Terminal leaf-tooth longer than the lateral ones. Male and female flowers, greenish on separate plants. Male in long drooping catkin like spikes, female in small clusters.
Almost anywhere.
Flowering June to September.
Perennial.
Abundant throughout Britain.
Abundant in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 607 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Nettle, Stinging Nettle, Common Nettle
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Urticaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1006
- First record:
- 11/05/1992 (John Mousley;Steve Grover)
- Last record:
- 03/03/2024 (Smith, Peter)
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