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A bed of common stinging nettles (Urtica dioica) on a sunny day in England.

July 7, 2024: Stinging nettle with seeds in forest

wild nettle plant in the garden close up

Stinging nettle plant leaves isolated on white background flat lay pattern

Close-up nettle plant in green background

A close up shot of Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)

May 25, 2024: Nettle in a sea of nettles

Urtica dioica or stinging nettle, in the garden, a medicinal plant.

Stinging nettle or common nettle, Urtica dioica.

Photo showing a clump of wild stinging nettles growing in a shady woodland setting, beneath the canopy of some tall deciduous trees. These nettles are pictured in the summer, when they are flowering in the dappled shade.

Stinging nettle, also known as nettle (scientific name: Urtica fissa) is a species of the genus Urtica in the Urticaceae family. It is distributed in Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang and Vietnam.

Stinging nettle, a medicinal plant that is used as a bleeding, diuretic, antipyretic, wound healing, antirheumatic agent.

Close up of a stinging nettle which is the selected focus growing in the North East of England.

Photo of a plant nettle. Nettle with fluffy green leaves. Background Plant nettle grows in the ground. Nettle on a natural background.

Stinging nettles in sunlight during springtime

Macro photograph capturing the details of a stinging nettle plant in full bloom, showcasing the beauty and intricacy of its flowering stage up close

Humulus leaves on a black background, North China

Green background of nettle (Urtica) leaves

$Very variable, vigorous, medium-tall perennial with stout stolons; stems square. Leaves opposite, heart-shape to lanceolate, armed with stinging hairs, toothed. Male and female flowers greenish, on separate plants; male in long drooping catkin-like spikes, female in small clusters. \nHabitat: Widely varied places, often near habitation and on rich soils, often forming extensive colonies.\nFlowering Season: June-September.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except Spitsbergen.\n\nThe Stem-fibres were used for making cloth from the Bronze Age onwards, and the young shoots are edible. The Plant is also used as Alternative Medicine.$

Known and unpopular are the nettles because of the painful wheals (swellings) that appear on the skin after touching the stinging hairs. Depending on the species, the consequences vary in severity; for example, the stinging fluid of the lesser stinging nettle (Urtica urens) is much more painful than that of the greater stinging nettle (Urtica dioica). These stinging hairs act as a protective mechanism against predators and are predominantly present on the upper surface of the leaf. They are long, unicellular tubes whose walls are hard and brittle like glass in the upper part due to incorporated silica. The lower, more flexible end is strongly swollen, filled with burning fluid and sunken into a cell cup. The tip consists of a sideways directed little head, under which a kind of predetermined breaking point is present due to the very thin wall here.

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