WOOD NETTLE
			Laportea canadensis
	HOME Botanical Terms Lists: Master Plant List Flowering Times List Flowers by Color/Type Endangered Species List Habitat List Use the 'back' button on your browser to return, if necessary.		These are the female flowers up top. FAMILY: Nettle Family (Urticaceae) DESCRIPTION: A thick-stemmed plant with stinging hairs and leaves 3 - 8" long, ovate and coarsely toothed. The female flowers (shown right) are in spindly clusters at the top and the male (below) in short clusters in the lower leaf axils. The plant grows from 1 - 4' tall. FLOWERS: July to September HABITAT: Low, moist rich woods and streambanks. OTHER INFORMATION: The similar Stinging Nettle are in shorter groups up the plant and its leaves are heart-shaped where it attaches to the stem. Even though this is not the Stinging Nettle, it still stings! The male flowers have no petals, forming large clusters in between the leaves   OTHER OBSERVATIONS: My observations about this plant can be found at: OFFSITE INFORMATION: If you're interested