Common Nettle Flower. It is a herbaceous annual plant growing to 1 m tall. It is fairly common and prefers moist places with partial shade.
Close up macro shot of sunlit common stinging nettle urtica dioica flowers. Galeopsis tetrahit the common hemp nettle or brittlestem hempnettle is a flowering plant in the family lamiaceae native to europe and northwestern asia. It is a pioneer species and thrives on disturbed sites or roadsides.
Stinging nettle urtica dioica name also.
Stem usually unbranched 4 edged with stinging hairs. Each of the 6 flowers in a whorl has an upper lip and lower lip with the latter being much longer and speckled with white spots. The flowers of hedge nettle are nearly an inch long pink to lavendar in color and appear in separate whorls along an upright stem. A rhizomatous to stoloniferous perennial common nettle is abundant and generally distributed in the uk and is recorded up to 2 700 ft.
