Stinging nettle

Stinging nettle may refer to:

• Urtica dioica, a perennial plant originally native to Europe, much of temperate Asia and western North Africa, now found worldwide

and also to

• plants of the genus Urtica, and less commonly also of the genera Hesperocnide and Laportea

and also specifically to some species of those genera

• American stinging nettle, Urtica gracilis, a perennial plant native to much of the North American continent
• Urtica incisa, a perennial plant native to streams and rainforest of eastern and southern Australia
• Hawaiian stinging nettle, Hesperocnide sandwicensis, a plant endemic to Hawaii
• western stinging nettle, Hesperocnide tenella, species of flowering plant native to California and Northern Baja California

See also

• List of plants known as nettle
• Stinging plant