Urtica dioica L.

 
  • Family : URTICACEAE
    (Nettle Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
  • Subfamily : Urticaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Urtica dioecia Hill; Urtica dioica subsp. eudioica Selander; Urtica eckloniana Blume; Urtica haussknechtii Boiss.; Urtica major Kanitz; Urtica major Garsault; Urtica microphylla Boiss. & Hausskn.; Urtica radicans Bolla; Urtica sicula Gasp. ex Guss.; Urtica submitis Boiss.; Urtica tibetica W.T.Wang ex C.J.Chen
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Urtica dioica L.
  • Common name : Stinging Nettle
  • Vernacular name :
    • Chorat (Assamese)
    • Bichchhu, Kali, Kandadli, Bichchhu buti (Hindi)
    • Churachi (Kannada)
    • Vrscikali (Sanskrit)
  • Habit : Perennial herb
  • Habitat : Moist places in forests, thickets, grasslands, stream banks; 2200 - 5000 m. altitude
  • Comments / notes : Common around habitations and on disturbed ground,
  • Key identification features : Plants often with dense stinging and setose hairs; leaf blade ovate or lanceolate, base cordate; petiole as long as leaf blade.
  • Flower, Fruit : June-September
  • Distribution :
    • Uttarakhand : Nainital district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Kinnaur district
  • Native : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungar
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Pantropics
  • Literature :
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 219
    • GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 1: Part 1. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 107-108
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Urtica dioica. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.

Field Image(s)

Habitat

India Distribution

World Distribution

Creative Commons License
India Flora Online by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.