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Urtica dioica - Male flowers - Click to enlarge!

Male flowers; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 4/2009 © Jörn Germer

Urtica dioica - Inflorescence, close-up - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence, close-up; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 4/2009 © Jörn Germer

Urtica dioica - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 4/2009 © Jörn Germer

Urtica dioica - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 4/2009 © Jörn Germer

Urtica dioica - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 4/2009 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1056
Date of entry: 22.04.2009
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Stinging nettle

German: Große Brennnessel

Mandarin: 异株荨麻 (yi zhu qian ma)

Portuguese: Ortigão

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Urticales (15)

        Family: Urticaceae (11)(family description)

          Genus: Urtica (2)

            Epithet: dioica L. (4)

dioica => having stamens and pistils in separate flowers on different plants

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

Flower colour: green

External links

Check for Urtica dioica at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI
  • [995] Urtica dioica - Plants For A Future
  • [1712] Urtica dioica - Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz

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