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The Wildflowers

False Nettle

Boehmeria cylindrica

from the site ☼

• Family: Nettle (Urticaceae)
• Flowering: June-October.
• Field Marks: This nettle is distinguished by its opposite leaves and the absence of stinging hairs.
• Habitat: Low woods, along streams, wet meadows, bogs, marshes.
• Habit: Perennial herbs from thickened rootstocks.
• Stems: Erect, unbranched, smooth, more or less 4-angled, up to 2 1/2 feet tall.
• Leaves: Opposite, simple, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed at the tip, rounded at the base, with 3 main veins, coarsely toothed, smooth, up to 3 inches long.
• Flowers: Many tiny flowers crowded into slender spikes borne from the axils of the leaves, the male flowers usually on separate plants from the female flowers, each flower greenish white, about 1/12 inches long.
• Sepals: 4, united.
• Petals: 0.
• Stamens: 4.
• Pistils: Ovary superior.
• Fruits: Achenes ovoid, narrowly winged, up to 1/10 inch long.