Common name: Stinging Nettle, Giant Nettle
Urtica dioica L. APNI* 
Description: Perennial, 30–150 cm high with stems distinctly pubescent between the longer, scattered stinging hairs; dioecious.
Leaves with lamina lanceolate to ovate, mostly 3–12 cm long, mostly 1–4 cm wide, both surfaces dark green; petiole mostly 1–3 cm long, often half as long as the lamina.
Inflorescence axillary, mostly branched and longer than the petiole, male and female flowers in the same inflorescence.
Distribution and occurrence: Naturalized, not common, native of Medit. and Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *CC
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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