| Scientific Name: | Urtica dioica |
| Common Name: | stinging nettle |
| Family Name: | Urticaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - northern, U.S. - central, U.S. - northeast, U.S. - northwest, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Herb, Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Prickly, Tomentose, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Green-yellow, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Achene, Green, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, simple, ovate, and deeply serrated with petioles and stipules and covered with fine stinging hairs on the margins and underside of leaves; florets 1-2mm long with 4 green sepals and no petals; fruit an achene 1-1.5mm long. | |