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Nettle (Urticaceae)
Nettle is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, nettle showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
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Oreocnide
Oreocnide is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, oreocnide showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Poikilospermum
Poikilospermum is a tropical genus of shrubs or tall woody climbers, consisting of at least four accepted species and another 23 species with unresolved taxonomic status. The petiolate leaves are alternate. The inflorescences are solitary and axillary dichotomously branched cymes, they are unisexual (the plants are dioecious). The seeds have little or no endosperm. The plants are found from India and China (Yunnan), the Sino-Himalayan region to Malesia and New Guinea.
Australina
Australina is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, australina showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Musanga
Musanga is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, musanga showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Nanocnide
Nanocnide is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, nanocnide showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Pouzolzia
Pouzolzia are a genus of flowering shrubs and herbs named in honor of the French botanist Pierre Marie Casimir de Pouzolz (1785–1858). These plants produce strong fibers which are used to make fishing nets and rope. Some species are grown ornamentally, especially because they attract pollinating bees.
Woodnettles
Woodnettles are herbaceous, either annual or perennial. Like many plants of the Urticaceae, they have stinging hairs, and have stinging and non-stinging hairs on the same plant. The genus contains 22 species.
Hesperocnide
Hesperocnide are annual herbs covered in stinging hairs and toothed leaves. Hesperocnide contains two species. They are native to America.
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Oreocnide
Oreocnide
Oreocnide is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, oreocnide showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Poikilospermum
Poikilospermum
Poikilospermum is a tropical genus of shrubs or tall woody climbers, consisting of at least four accepted species and another 23 species with unresolved taxonomic status. The petiolate leaves are alternate. The inflorescences are solitary and axillary dichotomously branched cymes, they are unisexual (the plants are dioecious). The seeds have little or no endosperm. The plants are found from India and China (Yunnan), the Sino-Himalayan region to Malesia and New Guinea.
Australina
Australina
Australina is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, australina showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Musanga
Musanga
Musanga is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, musanga showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Nanocnide
Nanocnide
Nanocnide is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, nanocnide showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Pouzolzia
Pouzolzia
Pouzolzia are a genus of flowering shrubs and herbs named in honor of the French botanist Pierre Marie Casimir de Pouzolz (1785–1858). These plants produce strong fibers which are used to make fishing nets and rope. Some species are grown ornamentally, especially because they attract pollinating bees.
Woodnettles
Woodnettles
Woodnettles are herbaceous, either annual or perennial. Like many plants of the Urticaceae, they have stinging hairs, and have stinging and non-stinging hairs on the same plant. The genus contains 22 species.
Hesperocnide
Hesperocnide
Hesperocnide are annual herbs covered in stinging hairs and toothed leaves. Hesperocnide contains two species. They are native to America.
False nettles
False nettles
False nettles are found growing in shade gardens, but are more often planted in agricultural fields as textural crops. Flowers in the summer attract bees and butterflies. While plants in the genus do not have nettles on the leaves or stems, they are sometimes called "false nettles" due to the similarity in appearance between the two species.
Clearweed
Clearweed
Clearweed are flowering succulents and herbaceous plants. These adaptable plants are fast-growing and low-maintenance, making them ideal container and house plants, but also thrive outdoors in indirect light. They are perfect ornamentals that bring both color and texture to the space. Some genus members have coin-shaped leaves, believed to bring good luck.
Cecropia
Cecropia
Cecropia are trees native to disturbed forests within the American tropics. They grow large, circular, lobed leaves that form umbrella-like shapes and generally are considered fast-growing. Cecropia are important for various animals. Ants live within these trees and form structures within the wood, while sloths use the trees as environments for feeding.
Stinging trees
Stinging trees
Stinging trees is a genus of 37 species of shrubs to large trees in the nettle family Urticaceae. They have a wide distribution across Southeast Asia, North East India, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
Elatostema
Elatostema
Elatostema is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, elatostema showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Leucosyke
Leucosyke
Leucosyke is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, leucosyke showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Droguetia
Droguetia
Droguetia is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, droguetia showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Procris
Procris
Procris is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, procris showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Forsskaolea
Forsskaolea
Forsskaolea is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, forsskaolea showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Chamabainia
Chamabainia
Chamabainia is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, chamabainia showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Girardinia
Girardinia
Girardinia is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, girardinia showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Debregeasia
Debregeasia
Debregeasia is a genus of plants belonging to the family Urticaceae.
Lecanthus
Lecanthus
Lecanthus is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, lecanthus showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Archiboehmeria
Archiboehmeria
Archiboehmeria is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, archiboehmeria showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Pellionia
Pellionia
Pellionia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae.
Parietaria
Parietaria
The parietaria (Parietaria) are flowering plants that produce small dry fruits called achenes. They are commonly cultivated as annual ornamentals in the United States, though some species are considered weeds. The pollen of these plants is released into the air in puffs, and spread to other plants by the wind.
Ghostweed
Ghostweed
Ghostweed is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, ghostweed showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Pipturus
Pipturus
Pipturus is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, pipturus showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Urera
Urera
Urera are lianas, shrubs, and small trees. Climbing species root along the stems and can reach the crowns of the trees they use for support. Some are spiny. The leaves are variable in shape and venation, and help in the identification of species. The inflorescence is a divided, branching panicle of flowers. Most species are dioecious, but a few are monoecious. The fruit is an achene covered in orange or red flesh. It has a pantropical distribution.
Urtica
Urtica
Urtica are known for their small stinging hairs that inject irritating chemicals and cause a skin rash upon contact. Urtica have traditionally been used as a cooked green as well as in teas and ale. The fibers have also traditionally been used to make textiles, nets, and paper.
Soleirolia
Soleirolia
Soleirolia are popular indoor plants but they can also be used as a moss substitute in Japanese and shade gardens. They produce slender stems covered in tiny leaves. The stems spread rapidly across surfaces, creating an attractive green mat. Soleirolia establish quickly and spread by propagation. The spreading stems can develop their own individual root systems.
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Dracaena
Dracaena are popular house plants that are easy to grow. They can tolerate low-light conditions and require little watering. Their leaves range from variegated to dark green. Their characteristic traits include woody stems that grow slowly but offer a striking appearance for small spaces such as apartments or offices.
Fig trees
Fig trees have been cultivated in many regions for their fruits, particularly the common fig, F. carica. Most of the species have edible fruits, although the common fig is the only one of commercial value. Fig trees are also important food sources for wildlife in the tropics, including monkeys, bats, and insects.
Brambles
Brambles are members of the rose family, and there are hundreds of different types to be found throughout the European countryside. They have been culturally significant for centuries; Christian folklore stories hold that when the devil was thrown from heaven, he landed on a bramble bush. Their vigorous growth habit can tangle into native plants and take over.
Maples
The popular tree family known as maples change the color of their leaves in the fall. Many cultural traditions encourage people to watch the colors change, such as momijigari in Japan. Maples popular options for bonsai art. Alternately, their sap is used to create maple syrup.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering fruit trees that includes almonds, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. These are often known as "stone fruits" because their pits are large seeds or "stones." When prunus trees are damaged, they exhibit "gummosis," a condition in which the tree's gum (similar to sap) is secreted to the bark to help heal external wounds.
Nightshades
Nightshades is a large and diverse genus of plants, with more than 1500 different types worldwide. This genus incorporates both important staple food crops like tomato, potato, and eggplant, but also dangerous poisonous plants from the nightshade family. The name was coined by Pliny the Elder almost two thousand years ago.
Roses
Most species of roses are shrubs or climbing plants that have showy flowers and sharp thorns. They are commonly cultivated for cut flowers or as ornamental plants in gardens due to their attractive appearance, pleasant fragrance, and cultural significance in many countries. The rose hips (fruits) can also be used in jams and teas.
Oaks
Oaks are among the world's longest-lived trees, sometimes growing for over 1,000 years! The oldest known oak tree is in the southern United States and is over 1,500 years old. Oaks produce an exceedingly popular type of wood which is used to make different products, from furniture and flooring to wine barrels and even cosmetic creams.
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Nettle
Urticaceae
Nettle is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, nettle showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Exploring the Nettle Plants
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8 most common species：
Oreocnide
Oreocnide is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, oreocnide showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Poikilospermum
Poikilospermum is a tropical genus of shrubs or tall woody climbers, consisting of at least four accepted species and another 23 species with unresolved taxonomic status. The petiolate leaves are alternate. The inflorescences are solitary and axillary dichotomously branched cymes, they are unisexual (the plants are dioecious). The seeds have little or no endosperm. The plants are found from India and China (Yunnan), the Sino-Himalayan region to Malesia and New Guinea.
Australina
Australina is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, australina showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Musanga
Musanga is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, musanga showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
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All Species of Nettle
Oreocnide
Poikilospermum
Australina
Musanga
Nanocnide
Pouzolzia
Woodnettles
Hesperocnide
False nettles
Clearweed
Cecropia
Stinging trees
Elatostema
Leucosyke
Droguetia
Procris
Forsskaolea
Chamabainia
Girardinia
Debregeasia
Lecanthus
Archiboehmeria
Pellionia
Parietaria
Ghostweed
Pipturus
Urera
Urtica
Soleirolia
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Dracaena
Dracaena are popular house plants that are easy to grow. They can tolerate low-light conditions and require little watering. Their leaves range from variegated to dark green. Their characteristic traits include woody stems that grow slowly but offer a striking appearance for small spaces such as apartments or offices.
Fig trees
Fig trees have been cultivated in many regions for their fruits, particularly the common fig, F. carica. Most of the species have edible fruits, although the common fig is the only one of commercial value. Fig trees are also important food sources for wildlife in the tropics, including monkeys, bats, and insects.
Brambles
Brambles are members of the rose family, and there are hundreds of different types to be found throughout the European countryside. They have been culturally significant for centuries; Christian folklore stories hold that when the devil was thrown from heaven, he landed on a bramble bush. Their vigorous growth habit can tangle into native plants and take over.
Maples
The popular tree family known as maples change the color of their leaves in the fall. Many cultural traditions encourage people to watch the colors change, such as momijigari in Japan. Maples popular options for bonsai art. Alternately, their sap is used to create maple syrup.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering fruit trees that includes almonds, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. These are often known as "stone fruits" because their pits are large seeds or "stones." When prunus trees are damaged, they exhibit "gummosis," a condition in which the tree's gum (similar to sap) is secreted to the bark to help heal external wounds.
Nightshades
Nightshades is a large and diverse genus of plants, with more than 1500 different types worldwide. This genus incorporates both important staple food crops like tomato, potato, and eggplant, but also dangerous poisonous plants from the nightshade family. The name was coined by Pliny the Elder almost two thousand years ago.
Roses
Most species of roses are shrubs or climbing plants that have showy flowers and sharp thorns. They are commonly cultivated for cut flowers or as ornamental plants in gardens due to their attractive appearance, pleasant fragrance, and cultural significance in many countries. The rose hips (fruits) can also be used in jams and teas.
Oaks
Oaks are among the world's longest-lived trees, sometimes growing for over 1,000 years! The oldest known oak tree is in the southern United States and is over 1,500 years old. Oaks produce an exceedingly popular type of wood which is used to make different products, from furniture and flooring to wine barrels and even cosmetic creams.
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