      
Taxon: Urtica dioica L.
Genus: Urtica
Family: Urticaceae.
Nomen number: 40944
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:984. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 12-Nov-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Nov-2002
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions:
3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- California nettle (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
) – English [Urtica dioica subsp. gracilis]
- common nettle (Source: BSBI
) – English
- European nettle (Source: AH 505
) – English
- nettle (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2
) – English
- stinging nettle (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- stinging nettle (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
) – English [Urtica dioica subsp. dioica]
- gan su yi zhu qian ma (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese [Urtica dioica subsp. gansuensis]
- wei jian yi zhu qian ma (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese [Urtica dioica subsp. afghanica]
- yi zhu qian ma (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- grande ortie (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- ortie (Source: F NAmer
) – French
- große Brennessel (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- ortiga (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- urtiga (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- urtigão (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- urtiga-maior (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- urtiga-mansa (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- urtiga-vermelha (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- chichicaste (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- ortiga (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
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Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
China: China - Gansu [e.], Qinghai, Sichuan [n.w.], Xinjiang [w.], Xizang
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [n.]; Nepal; Pakistan
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory [s.w.], Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec; St. Pierre and Miquelon
Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [n.e.], Delaware, Georgia [n.], Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi [w.], North Carolina [w.], Tennessee, Virginia
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Sonora
Naturalized:
- Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds.
1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist.
1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
- Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten.
1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol. (Aquat SE US)
- Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire.
1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc. (L Maroc)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Malezasdemexico.
Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
- Meikle, R. D.
1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
- Mouterde, P.
1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Pottier-Alapetite, G.
1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones. (F Tunis)
- Quézel, P. & S. Santa.
1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
- Radford, A. E. et al.
1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Terrell, E. E. et al.
1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Woodland, D. W.
1982. Biosystematics of the perennial North American taxa of Urtica. II. Taxonomy.
Syst. Bot.
7:282–290.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Urtica dioica L.:
-
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 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.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40944 (09 February 2010)
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