Dwarf Nettle
Urtica urens L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- —
Urticaceae
Also called Small Nettle, Annual Stinging Nettle, Burning Nettle, Bush Nettle, Bush Stinging Nettle
Formerly Urtica atlantica, Urtica cubensis, Urtica minor, Urtica ovalifolia, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and Himalaya, N. & NE. Trop. Africa to Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 61 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- URTURE, urtiga, bubati
- Finnish
- rautanokkonen
- Hebrew
- סרפד צורב
- French
- Ortie brûlante, petite ortie, ortie brûlante
- German
- Kleine Brennnessel, Eiternessel, Kleine Brennessel
- Czech
- kopřiva žahavka
- Danish
- Liden nælde, Liden Nælde
- Dutch
- Kleine brandnetel, kleine brandnetel
- Estonian
- raudnõges, Raudnõges
- Russian
- Крапива жгучая
- Spanish
- ortiga menor, Ortiga blanca, Ortiga
- Norwegian Bokmål
- smånesle
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Urtica urens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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