Taxon: Urtica urens L.

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Common names:

• burning nettle   (Source: WorldWeeds 894. 1997) – English
  
• dog nettle   (Source: WorldWeeds 893. 1997) – English
  
• dwarf nettle   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• English stinging nettle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• lesser nettle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• lesser stinging nettle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• small nettle   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• ou qian ma   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ortie   (Source: WorldWeeds 893. 1997) – French
  
• urtiga-branca   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• urtiga-menor   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• urtiga-queimadeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• ortiga   (Source: WorldWeeds 893. 1997) – Spanish
  
• etternässla   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide WorldWeeds 893. 1997)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 893. 1997)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

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Distributional range:

• widely naturalized

• probably native in Europe

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 45:1159. [introduced].
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 4:588.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Merxmüller, H., ed. 1966–1972. Prodromus einer flora von Sudwestafrika.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urtica urens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Urtica urens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Urtica urens.

Check other web resources for Urtica urens L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Flower: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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