List of plants known as nettle

Nettle refers to plants with stinging hairs, particularly those of the genus Urtica. 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
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
false nettle – Boehmeria
flame nettle – Coleus
hedge nettle – Stachys
hemp nettle – Galeopsis
horse nettle:
- Agastache urticifolia – horse-nettle
- Solanum carolinense – ball-nettle, Carolina horse-nettle
- Solanum dimidiatum – western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle
- Solanum elaeagnifolium – bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle
- Solanum rostratum – horse-nettle
nettle tree or tree nettle:
- Celtis
- Various species of the genus Dendrocnide
- Urera baccifera
- Urtica ferox
nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle - Girardinia diversifolia
painted nettle – Coleus scutellarioides
rock nettle – Eucnide
shiny-leaved nettle – Dendrocnide photiniphylla
spurge nettle – Cnidoscolus
stinging nettle
- Hesperocnide
- most, but not all subspecies of Urtica dioica
- Urtica incisa
- Urtica ferox
tree nettle - see nettle tree
white nettle
- Lamium album
- Pipturus argenteus
wood nettle - Laportea canadensis