Common Name: Stinging Nettle, Common Nettle, Nettle Family: Urticacea Species: Urtica Dioica Stinging Nettle is a herbaceous, perennial flowering plant widely spread all over the world. Nettle grows up to 1 or 2 meter tall in summer, dying down to the ground in winter. The soft, green leaves are are borne oppositely on an erect, green stem. Both leaves and stem have many hollow stinging hairs called trichomes which act like needles, injecting histamine and other chemicals that produce a stinging sensation when contacted by humans and other animals.…
STINGING NETTLE: Properties and Uses of a Super Plant
