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 Nettle

Urtica dioica

Grows in moist thickets, Jan-Oct. Flowers are greenish in loose stringy clusters above each pair of velvety leaves. Armed with painful stinging hairs. 3-7 ft. Perennial from strong spreading rhizomes. Leaves opposite, narrowly lance-shaped to oval or heart-shaped, coarsely saw-toothed.

 
   


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