Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Urtica urens
Common name
Small nettle, Stinging nettle
Family
Urticaceae
Where found
Paddocks on shaded sites, gardens, and disturbed sites. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.9 m tall, covered in scattered stinging hairs. Stems more or less hairless between the stinging hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 1-7 cm long, mostly 10-45 mm wide, lower surface paler, almost hairless between the stinging hairs, margins toothed, tips blunt or sometimes pointed. Young stems and leaf stalks quite hairy. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Flowers 1–2 mm long, about 1 mm wide, green, male flowers with 4 'petals', female flowers apparently with 2 'petals'. Flowers in short branched clusters of mixed male and female flowers. Flower clusters mostly shorter than the leaf stalks. Flowers all year.
PlantNETdescription: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Urtica~urens (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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