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- What types of stinging nettle are there in this country?
- The big nettle
- The small nettle
- The reed stinging nettle
- The pills nettle and other types
- Tips
The flower color of stinging nettles varies
What types of stinging nettle are there in this country?
Stinging nettle is not the same nettle. While more than 30 species are distributed in the world, only 4 species can be found in this country. These representatives of the family of the nettle plants are examined here once carefully ...
The big nettle
The best known in Germany is the Great Nettle (Urtica dioica). It is - as its name suggests - up to 3 m high and can be used as well as their conspecifics as a medicinal plant.
Its leaves are dark green, strongly serrate at the edge and between July and October it presents panicle-shaped inflorescences. The flowers are dioecious, unlike those of the other nettle species, d. H. There are male and female flowers.
The small nettle
The second most common nettle species found in Germany is the small nettle (Urtica urens). Your characteristics:
The reed stinging nettle
In the area of the Havel and outside of Germany in many parts of Eastern Europe, the reed stinging nettle is increasingly found. It has no bristle hair, but stinging hair. Due to the absence of bristles their leaves appear shiny. They are long-stalked and the panicle-shaped inflorescences appear between July and August. As a rule, it is 30 to 60 cm high.
The pills nettle and other types
Very rarely found in Germany is the pills stinging nettle, which originates from the Mediterranean and is distributed to southwest Asia. It is also called Roman nettle. It is one to two years old and grows up to 1 m high. Its bloom time lies between April and October.
Elsewhere in the world, among others, there are the Siberian hemp nettle, the nettled nettle and the Majorca stinging nettle, to name just a few. They all have stinging hair that causes wheals when touched or harvested.
Tips
If you want to fight nettles, you should first find out what kind it is. For example, the small nettle is much easier to destroy than the large nettle, which spreads quickly via root spurs.