Urtica

Accepted species 72 Documented here 24 Family Urticaceae

Accepted species 72 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Urtica dioica L. 7,895 documented
Urtica urens L. 1,653 documented
Urtica gracilis Aiton 1,532 documented
Urtica ferox G.Forst. 560 documented
Urtica membranacea Poir. ex Savigny 300 documented
Urtica sykesii Grosse-Veldm. & Weigend 222 documented
Urtica chamaedryoides Pursh 210 documented
Urtica cannabina L. 180 documented
Urtica pilulifera L. 113 documented
Urtica thunbergiana Siebold & Zucc. 89 documented
Urtica incisa Poir. 82 documented
Urtica perconfusa Grosse-Veldm. & Weigend 55 documented
Urtica australis Hook.f. 38 documented
Urtica morifolia Poir. 16 documented
Urtica gracilenta Greene 13 documented
Urtica taiwaniana S.S.Ying 12 documented
Urtica flabellata Kunth 11 documented
Urtica ardens Link 6 documented
Urtica kioviensis Rogow. 6 documented
Urtica circularis (Hicken) Sorarú 5 documented
Urtica aspera Petrie 4 documented
Urtica echinata Benth. 4 documented
Urtica lobata E.Mey. ex Blume 3 documented
Urtica magellanica Juss. ex Poir. 3 documented
Urtica mexicana Liebm. 3 below the evidence gate
Urtica atrovirens Req. ex Loisel. 2 below the evidence gate
Urtica platyphylla Wedd. 1 below the evidence gate
Urtica stachyoides Webb & Berthel. 1 below the evidence gate
Urtica atrichocaulis (Hand.-Mazz.) C.J.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica ballotifolia Wedd. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica berteroana Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica bianorii (Knoche) Paiva 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica bracteola Charit. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica bullata Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica chengkouensis W.T.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica cypria (H.Lindb.) Hand 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica domingensis Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica fissa E.Pritz. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica fragilis J.Thiébaut 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica galeopsifolia J.Jacq. ex Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica glomerulaeflora Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica helanshanica W.Z.Di & W.B.Liao 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica himalayensis Kunth & C.D.Bouché 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica hyperborea Jacquem. ex Wedd. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica lalibertadensis Weigend 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica laurifolia Poir. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica leptophylla Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica lilloi (Hauman) Geltman 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica macbridei Killip 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica mairei H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica malipoensis W.T.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica masafuerae Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica massaica Mildbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica membranifolia C.J.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica neubaueri Chrtek 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica oblongata W.D.J.Koch ex Maly 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica papuana Zandee 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica parviflora Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica peruviana Geltman 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica portosanctana Press 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica praetermissa V.W.Steinm. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica pseudomagellanica Geltman 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica rubricaulis Span. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica rupestris Guss. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica sansibarica Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica simensis Hochst. ex A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica spathulata Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica spirealis Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica subincisa Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica triangularis Hand.-Mazz. 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica trichantha (Wedd.) Acevedo & L.E.Navas 0 below the evidence gate
Urtica urentivelutina Weigend 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.