Wood Nettle
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Laportea Canadensis Commonly Called Canada Nettle Or Wood Nettle Stinging Nettle Canadensis Nettle
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But like stinging nettle wood-nettle packs an uncomfortable sting.
Wood nettle. Canada wood-nettle is a native species unlike the rather similar stinging nettle Urica dioica. The wood nettle is often confused with stinging nettle because of their stinging hairs but the wood nettle has alternate leaves while the stinging nettle has opposite leaves. Erect perennial herb with conspicuous stinging hairs throughout.
The very upper leaves can be opposite. Flowers small and inconspicuous in axillary clusters. Wood Nettle is a native erect perennial growing to 4 feet in height on green stems that are densely to sparsely covered with bristly stinging hairs and non-glandular non-stinging hairs.
Cooking or drying them denatures the sting. Habitats include moist floodplain woodlands moist bottomland woodlands mesic woodlands shady seeps and other moist. Watch the below video to learn how to identify both plants how to handle them what to use for cooking and how to use as fertilizer.
Provides fibers used for textiles Laportea canadensis. The inflorescence shape is reflected in its scientific name Boehmeria cylindrica as the flowers are grouped in cylindrical shapes along the stem. But they dont seem to be as virulent as those of Stinging Nettle.
Note that some flowers are above the top leaves and others are below. The leaves are edible at any stage of the plants growth. HabitatThe native Wood Nettle is common in central and northern Illinois but it is uncommon or absent in parts of southern Illinois see Distribution Map.
Wood nettle Laportea canadensis The fourth nettle the left-most image in the four-across groupings above is called False nettle. In this video we talk a bit about Canadian Wood Nettle a common relative to stinging nettle that many say is a better tasting edible. Wood Nettle is native to Eastern and Central North America whereas Stinging Nettle was introduced.
Wood Nettle Laportea Canadensis Male Flowers Photograph Taken At Frankfort Springs Beaver County Pa July 12 2012 Do No Wild Flowers Canadensis Plants
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