Plant	Leaves
Female Flowers Fruit	Male Flowers

Height: 40-150cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial Rhizomatous
Dioecious, Flowering June - October (Earliest: 12.5)

Habitat:	Meadows	Hedge Rows	Around Buildings
Pollination:	Wind	Tenthredopsis coquebertii	Coenonympha pamphilus	Nemophora degeerella
	Bicellaria subpilosa	Eristalis similis
Seed Dispersal:	Wind
Parasites:	Septoria urticae	Agapanthia villosoviridescens Larva (Stem Borer)	Dasineura urticae Larva (Leaf Gall)
Herbivores:	Columba palumbus	Several Nymphalidae	Several Arctiidae	Several Noctuidae
	Eurrhypara hortulata	Pleuroptya ruralis Larva	Anthophila fabriciana Larva	Nedyus quadrimaculatus
	Phyllobius pomaceus	Neocrepidodera ferruginea	Helicidae
Sapivores:	Palomena prasina	Many Miridae	Cercopis vulnerata	Eupteryx aurata
	Eupteryx urticae	Aphis urticata	Uroleucon jaceae	Aleyrodes lonicerae
Florivores:	Brachypterus urticae
Granivores:	Prunella modularis	Passeridae	Carduelis carduelis	Carduelis flammea
	Several Miridae
Nests:	Anas platyrhynchos	Several Sylviidae

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Stinging Nettle

Pictures © 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008 J.K. Lindsey

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