Urtica urensL.

Dwarf Nettle

WFO wfo-0000416948 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Urtica urens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205542370
Urtica urens, photographed by Paulius Rupšas
fig. b Paulius Rupšas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203445058
Urtica urens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197755637
Urtica urens, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. d Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202107159
Urtica urens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202815117
Urtica urens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194503634
Urtica urens, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. g Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196893580
Urtica urens, photographed by Jenny Saito
fig. h Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194489116

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Flowering n = 332 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 332 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 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 atlantica Blume
  • Urtica cubensis Klotzsch ex Herder
  • Urtica minor Garsault
  • Urtica minor Lam.
  • Urtica monoica Gilib.
  • Urtica ovalifolia Stokes
  • Urtica parvula Blume
  • Urtica quadristipulata Dulac
  • Urtica trianae Rusby
  • Urtica urens var. lanceolata E.Nilsson

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.

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