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Urtica ''Urtica'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae. Many species have stinging hairs and may be called nettles or stinging nettles, although the latter name applies particularly to ''Urtica dioica''. ''Urtica'' species are food f ...

''. It can also refer to plants which resemble ''Urtica'' species in appearance but do not have stinging hairs. Plants called "nettle" include: * ball nettle – ''

Solanum carolinense ''Solanum carolinense'', the Carolina horsenettle, is not a true nettle, but a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, native to the southeastern United States, though its range has expanded throughou ...

'' * bull nettle ** ''

Cnidoscolus stimulosus ''Cnidoscolus stimulosus'', the bull nettle, spurge nettle, tread-softly or finger rot, is a perennial herb covered with stinging hairs, native to southeastern North America. A member of the family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family), it is not a tr ...

'', bull nettle, spurge nettle ** ''

Cnidoscolus texanus ''Cnidoscolus texanus'', commonly known as Texas bullnettle (also Texas bull nettleNieland, Lashara J. and Willa F. Finley (2009) Lone Star Wildflowers: A Guide to Texas Flowering Plants. Texas Tech University Press. Lubbock, Texas x, 320 pp. an ...

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Cnidoscolus urens ''Cnidoscolus urens'' is a perennial, tropical American stinging herb of the family Euphorbiaceae, and is one of some 100 species belonging to the genus ''Cnidoscolus'' (Gk. knidē-nettle, skōlos-thorn, Latin urens-burning). The plant is locally ...

'', bull nettle ** ''

Solanum elaeagnifolium ''Solanum elaeagnifolium'', the silverleaf nightshade or silver-leaved nightshade, is a common native plant to parts of the southwestern USA, and sometimes weed of western North America and also found in South America. Other common names includ ...

'', bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle * dead nettle, dumb nettle ** ''

Lamium ''Lamium'' (dead-nettles) is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, of which it is the type genus. They are all herbaceous plants native to Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, but several have become very successf ...

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Lamium album ''Lamium album'', commonly called white nettle or white dead-nettle, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native throughout Europe and Asia, growing in a variety of habitats from open grassland to woodland, generally on moist, fer ...

'' * false nettle – ''

Boehmeria ''Boehmeria'' is a genus of 47 species of flowering plants in the nettle family Urticaceae. Of the species, 33 are indigenous to the Old World and 14 to the New World; no species is indigenous to both the Old and New Worlds. The species include ...

'' * flame nettle – ''

Coleus ''Coleus'' is a genus of annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, sometimes succulent, sometimes with a fleshy or tuberous rootstock, found in the Old World tropics and subtropics. The relationship among the genera ''Coleus'', '' Solenostemon'' and ...

'' * hedge nettle – ''

Stachys ''Stachys'' is a genus of plants, one of the largest in the mint family Lamiaceae.Harley, R. M., et al. 2004. "Labiatae". pages 167–275. In: Kubitzki, K. (editor) and J. W. Kadereit (volume editor). ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ...

'' * hemp nettle – ''

Galeopsis ''Galeopsis'', commonly called hemp-nettle or hempnettle, is a genus of annual herbaceous plants native to Europe and Asia. Some species are naturalized in North America and New Zealand. The plants are poisonous. Several species are widespread w ...

'' * horse nettle: ** '' Agastache urticifolia'' – horse-nettle ** ''

'' – ball-nettle, Carolina horse-nettle ** '' Solanum dimidiatum'' – western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle ** ''

'' – bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle ** '' Solanum rostratum'' – horse-nettle * nettle tree or tree nettle: ** ''

Celtis ''Celtis'' is a genus of about 60–70 species of deciduous trees, commonly known as hackberries or nettle trees, widespread in warm temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The genus is part of the extended hemp family (Cannabaceae). De ...

'' ** Various species of the genus ''

Dendrocnide ''Dendrocnide'' is a genus of approximately 40 species of plants in the nettle family ''Urticaceae''. They have a wide distribution across North East India, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. In Australia they are commonly known a ...

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Urera baccifera ''Urera baccifera'' is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family known by many common names, including scratchbush, ''ortiga brava'', ''pringamoza'', ''mala mujer'', ''chichicaste'', ''nigua'', ''guaritoto'', ''ishanga'', ''manman guêpe ...

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Urtica ferox ''Urtica ferox'', commonly known as tree nettle and in Māori: ongaonga, taraonga, taraongaonga, оr okaoka, is a species of nettle endemic to New Zealand. Unlike the other species in the genus ''Urtica'' found in New Zealand, all of which are he ...

'' * nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle - ''

Girardinia diversifolia ''Girardinia diversifolia'', commonly known as the Himalayan nettle or Nilghiri nettle, is a plant species native to Nepal and in the Himalayan parts of India such as Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir and in vast parts of China ...

'' * painted nettle – ''

Coleus blumei ''Coleus scutellarioides'', commonly known as coleus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae (the mint or deadnettle family), native to southeast Asia through to Australia. Typically growing to tall and wide, it is a bushy, woo ...

'' * rock nettle – ''

Eucnide ''Eucnide'' (stingbush) is a genus of plants in the family Loasaceae. Species include: *''Eucnide aurea'' (A. Gray) H.J. Thomps. & W.R. Ernst *''Eucnide bartonioides'' Zucc. - Yellow stingbush *''Eucnide rupestris ''Eucnide'' (stingbush ...

'' * small-leaved nettle – ''

Dendrocnide photinophylla ''Dendrocnide photinophylla'', the shining-leaved stinging tree, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It occurs from near the Colo River northwest of Sydney to Cooktown in tropical Queensland. A versatile species, it occurs in many diff ...

'' * spurge nettle – ''

Cnidoscolus ''Cnidoscolus'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1827. The group is widespread across much of North and South America, including the West Indies. The name is derived from the Greek words κνίδη (''kn ...

'' * stinging nettle ** ''

Hesperocnide ''Hesperocnide'' is a small genus of nettles containing two species. These are annual herbs covered in stinging hairs and toothed leaves. ''Hesperocnide sandwicensis'', the Hawaii nettle, is endemic to Hawaii. '' Hesperocnide tenella'', the wes ...

'' ** most, but not all subspecies of ''

Urtica dioica ''Urtica dioica'', often known as common nettle, burn nettle, stinging nettle (although not all plants of this species sting) or nettle leaf, or just a nettle or stinger, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Urticaceae. Ori ...

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Urtica incisa ''Urtica incisa'', commonly called scrub nettle, stinging nettle, and tall nettle, is an upright perennial herb native to streams and rainforest of eastern and southern Australia, from the north–east southwards through the east, of Queensland a ...

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'' * tree nettle - see nettle tree * white nettle **''

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Pipturus argenteus ''Pipturus argenteus'', known as false stinger, native mulberry, white mulberry, white nettle, amahatyan (Chamorro), and ghasooso ( Carolinian), is a small tree native to Malesia, Papuasia, northern and eastern Australia, Micronesia, Melanesia a ...

'' * wood nettle - ''

Laportea canadensis ''Laportea canadensis'', commonly called Canada nettle or wood-nettle, is an annual or perennial herbaceous plant of the nettle family Urticaceae, native to eastern and central North America. It is found growing in open woods with moist rich soi ...

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