Urtica dioica L.
URTICACEAE
- Nettle family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Urtica dioica L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 984 (1753)
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Stinging nettle
English name: California nettle English name: common nettle
Spanish name: chichicaste
French name: ortie
Italian name: Ortica comune
German name: große Brennessel
Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Urtica dioica L. ssp. dioica
2) Urtica dioica L. ssp. gracilis (Aiton) Seland.
3) Urtica dioica L. ssp. holosericea (Nutt.) Thorne
4) Urtica dioica L. var. angustifolia Schltdl.
5) Urtica dioica L. var. californica (Greene) C.L. Hitchc.
6) Urtica dioica L. var. gracilis (Aiton) C.L. Hitchc.
7) Urtica dioica L. var. holosericea (Nutt.) C.L. Hitchc.
8) Urtica dioica L. var. lyallii (S. Watson) C.L. Hitchc.
9) Urtica dioica L. var. occidentalis S. Watson
10) Urtica dioica L. var. procera (Muhl. ex Willd.) Weddell
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Hamamelididae
Order: Urticales
Family: Urticaceae
Genus: Urtica
Species:
Page counter: 3042 ( AVG: 221.43 / 290.147 )
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Urtica dioica
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Urtica dioica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Comprensorio di San Giovanni, Orto, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
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Urtica dioica
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Urtica dioica
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la
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Urtica dioica
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Urtica dioica
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna
Urtica dioica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Brentonico, ai margini dell'abitato, TN, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Urtica dioica
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Urtica dioica
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Urtica dioica
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna
Urtica dioica
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 635.
Urtica dioica
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Urtica dioica
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Urtica dioica
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Urtica dioica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Urtica dioica
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari
Urtica dioica
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari
Urtica dioica
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Urtica dioica
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain
Urtica dioica
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain
Urtica dioica
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna
Urtica dioica
Credit: Photo by Giancarlo Pasquali
Urtica dioica
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna
Urtica dioica
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
Urtica dioica
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Comprensorio di San Giovanni, Orto, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)
Map for Urtica dioica L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA
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More species:
1) Urtica dioica L. ssp. dioica [1534]
2) Urtica dioica L. var. angustifolia Schltdl. [200]
3) Urtica dioica L. var. californica (Greene) C.L. Hitchc. [89]
4) Urtica dioica L. var. holosericea (Nutt.) C.L. Hitchc. [97]
5) Urtica dioica L. var. occidentalis S. Watson [141]
6) Urtica gracilis Aiton ssp. holosericea (Nutt.) W.A. Weber [151]
7) Urtica holosericea Nutt. [144]
8) Urtica nummulariifolia Sw. [93]
9) Urticastrum divaricatum (L.) Kuntze [154]
10) Usnea esthonica Rasanen [91]
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