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Bayer Code : urtdi

Scientific name: Urtica dioica L.

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Classification: Urticaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: common nettle

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Große Brennessel ; ES : ortiga mayor ; FR : ortie dioïque ; IT : ortica comune ; PT : urtiga-maior ; EN : common nettle ; NL : grote brandnetel ;

Biological type: Perennial with stolons

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons cordate tip.

- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, regularly dentate.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-100 cm. Plant dark-green, hispid.

- Stem robust, erect, 4-angled.

- Leaves opposite dark-green, long-stalked, dentate, shining above, simple, large, cordate at base and acute at apex. Margin coarsely dentate. Stipules linear, lanceolate. Stinging erect hairs.

- Flowers greenish unisexual in drooping racemes on separated shoots (plant dioecious ); racemes longer than the peduncle. Pubescent perianth.

- Fruits : achenes, flowering raceme drooping when the fruit is ripe.

- Plant with leaves astringent, hemostatic, antianoemia, antidiabetic, healing, deodorant and dyeing; used as food for poultry. Stinging effects due to the silica and formic acid inside hairs.

- Biological type: perennial with stolons.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Great Britain  Rare     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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