Urtica urens L.

URTICACEAE

- Nettle family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Urtica urens L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 984 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Dwarf nettle

English name: burning nettle

English name: dog nettle

Spanish name: ortiga

French name: ortie

Italian name: Ortica minore

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Hamamelididae
Order: Urticales
Family: Urticaceae
Genus: Urtica
Species:

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Urtica urens
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (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'.

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Urtica urens
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Athens, northern slope of the Acropolis, Attica, Greece, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Urtica urens
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Urtica urens
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola di Giannutri, GR, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Urtica urens
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Isola d'Ischia, lungo il sentiero a monte di Serrara Fontana., NA, Campania, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Urtica urens
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Urtica urens
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Urtica urens
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Venezia, località Alberoni, ai margini della strada per la spiaggia. , VE, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Urtica urens
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Alessandrini

Urtica urens
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 urens
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - 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 urens
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Urtica urens
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Urtica urens

Urtica urens
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Alessandrini

Urtica urens
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.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AZ, CA, CT, FL, GA, HI, IA, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, PA, SC, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

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(*) 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 viridis Rydb. [147]
2) Urticastrum divaricatum (L.) Kuntze [155]
3) Usnea antillarum (Vain.) Zahlbr. [104]
4) Usnea betulina Mot. [136]
5) Usnea comosa auct. [105]
6) Usnea esthonica Rasanen [92]
7) Usnea laracina Vain. ex Rasanen [144]
8) Usnea similis Mot. ex Rasanen [97]
9) Usnea variolosa Mot. [100]
10) Utricularia vulgaris L. var. americana A. Gray [150]

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