Digital Herbaria

Specimen & Label Data

Urtica urens

Dog nettle

Urticaceae

Location: 10 m N of extreme end of East-West Path--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Full morning sun, caliche soil. Few & scattered among Poaceae.

Description: Erect annual, 60 cm tall from tough root. Stem simple. Leaves similar throughout, little reduced above, long petiolate--nearly length of blade. Blade 4 x 5 cm, sub-orbicular to ovate, rounded at apex, sub-cordate at base, deeply incised. Flower clusters on peduncles much shorter than petioles.

County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: May 4, 1994
Specimen number: 581

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0868
Accession Date: Aug 23, 19994
Accession Number: 66

Annotations: MXFXB Androgynous (In fruit)