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Plants called "nettle" include: ball nettle – Solanum carolinense; bull nettle Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle; Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle; Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle; Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle; dead nettle, dumb nettle Lamium, particularly Lamium album
Urtica gracilis, commonly known as the slender nettle, tall nettle, or American stinging nettle, is a perennial plant without woody stems that is well known for the unpleasant stinging hairs on its leaves and stems. [2] It is native to much of North America from Guatemala northwards and temperate areas of South America. [1]
Chenopodiastrum murale, [2] (Syn. Chenopodium murale) is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common names nettle-leaved goosefoot, [3] Australian-spinach, salt-green, and sowbane. [1]
Of California's total plant population, 2,153 species, subspecies, and varieties are endemic and native to California alone, according to the 1993 Jepson Manual study. [4] This botanical diversity stems not only from the size of the state, but also its diverse topographies , climates, and soils (e.g. serpentine outcrops ).
Soleirolia soleirolii (/ s oʊ ˌ l iː ə ˈ r oʊ l i ə s oʊ ˌ l iː ə ˈ r oʊ l i ˌ aɪ, ˌ s oʊ l ɪ ˈ r oʊ-/, [2] [3] syn. Helxine soleirolii) is a flowering plant in the nettle family.It has a number of common names, including baby's tears, angel's tears, peace in the home, bits and pieces, bread and cheese, Corsican creeper, Corsican curse, friendship plant, mind-your-own ...
It was SoCal nurseryman Paul Ecke Sr. who took a little-known, spindly outdoor plant from Central America in the early 1920s and bred it into a hardy potted plant "whose tapering red leaves have ...
Urtica is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae. Many species have stinging hairs and may be called nettles or stinging nettles (the latter name applying particularly to U. dioica). The generic name Urtica derives from the Latin for 'sting'. Due to the stinging hairs, Urtica are rarely eaten by herbivores, but provide shelter for ...
Verbena urticifolia, known as nettle-leaved vervain [1] or white vervain, is a herbaceous plant in the vervain family (Verbenaceae). It belongs to the "true" vervains of genus Verbena . The Urtica -like leaves were the reason for the scientific name urticifolia .