[Regia-NA] Nettles

[Hazel Uzzell]

According to Mrs Grieve's Modern Herbal:

UK nettles.
Greater nettle. Common nettle Urtica dioica
Stings
Other names: Stinging  nettle.

Lesser nettle. Urtica urens.
Stings

Roman nettle  Urtica pilulifera
Virulent sting

White Dead nettle   Lamium album
Doesn't sting. Not a true nettle
Other names. Archangel. Blind, deaf or dumb nettle. Bee nettle

Purple dead nettle. Lamium purpureum
Doesn't sting.
Other names. Purple archangel.

Yellow dead nettle. lamium galeobdolon.
Doesn't sting.

henbit dead nettle. Lamium amplexicaule.
Doesn't sting.

Spotted dead nettle. lamium maculatum.
Doesn't sting

Hemp nettle. Galeopsis tetrahit.
Other names. Dodders.
Doesn't sting.

The stinging nettles were used for spinning and weaving right up to the last
war.
Hazel