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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Urticaceae
Urtica urens

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Stinging nettle, small (or dwarf) nettle, lesser stinging nettle.

Description:
Erect annual usually less than 70 cm high; leaves broadly ovate to elliptic, deeply toothed, 2.5-5 cm long, the veins sparsely hairy beneath.

Flowers monoecious, mixed in the same clusters, in short axillary racemes; outer divisions of the female perianth each with 1 long dorsal stinging hair.

image of FSA1_Urtica_ure1.jpg
Image source: fig. 65 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Urtica_ure2.jpg male perianth
Image source: fig. 65 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 211.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   native to North Africa and Eurasia; commonly naturalised especially in disturbed areas in all States.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: June — Nov.


SA Distribution Map based
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