Common nettle Urtica dioica

Features

Urtica dioica, often known as common 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.

Species	Perrenial
Living space	Bright forest, Clean or mixed forest, Conifer forest, Dark forest, Deciduous forest, Field, Meadow, Mixed forest
Size	up to 120 cm

Description

It has an upright quadrangular stem. The leaves are oblong, ovate with an elongated tip, at the bottom they are heart-shaped, gray-green in color, below they are covered with brittle hairs that cling to the skin and burn, excreting toxins that cause redness and blisters on the skin. Common nettle is a very widespread plant that grows in abandoned gardens, fields, moist forests, along roads, embankments and also high in the mountains.