Urtica kioviensisRogow.

Kievan nettle

WFO wfo-0000417182 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Urtica kioviensis, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. a Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / 2021-08-10 / obs. 150059798
Urtica kioviensis, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. b Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 150059628
Urtica kioviensis, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. c Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 150063566
Urtica kioviensis, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. d Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 150063595
Urtica kioviensis, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. e Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 150063622
Urtica kioviensis, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. f Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 150063777

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Urtica kioviensis is native: Palestine, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Germany, Hungary, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine PalestineAustriaBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaGermanyHungaryRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Urtica kioviensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Palestine PAL ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Urtica bollae Kanitz
  • Urtica dioica subsp. koviensis Buia
  • Urtica dioica var. kioviensis (Rogow.) Wedd.
  • Urtica hulensis Feinbrun

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.