Wood Nettle
Scientific Name: Laportea canadensis
The only nettle with alternate leaves. Separate male (middle) and female flowers (top) on same plant.
Wood Nettle
Scientific Name: Laportea canadensis
Wood Nettle
| Genus species: | Laportea canadensis | |||||||||||
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| Common Name: | Wood Nettle | |||||||||||
| Family Name: | Urticaceae 
Annual or perennial herbs; leaves various, simple, stipulate in most; flowers small and greenish, mostly unisexual and plants monoecious or dioecious, regular, in axillary or terminal clusters; fruit an achene. | |||||||||||
| Seed Type | Angiosperm | |||||||||||
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Native | |||||||||||
| Category: | Wildflower | |||||||||||
| Flower Color: | Green/Brown | |||||||||||
| Identified by: | A. Swanson | |||||||||||
| Months in Bloom The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicates the month(s) the plant has been observed blooming. | ||||||||||||
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