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identification of a weed please?

lavender4lavender4 Posts: 25
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Please can anyone identify this - it's a weed, I think, and it stings like crazy!

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2022
    Looks like Stinging nettle ... Urtica dioica  ...the stem and leaves will have fine bristles.  There isn't really any other UK native plant that stings.  

    https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/stinging-nettle

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Or you could touch it😖
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Think she's tried that @B3 😭

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Oops. I didn't read that! 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @B3 you should go out and find her some dock leaves.  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I would but it's probably stopped by now.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hmm, I've had nettle stings that still sting the next day ........   :#

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Mine don't sting the next day, they itch, which is worse!
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    It looks like a creeping buttercup shoot to me. Dig it out, following to the end of the root. 
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Creeping buttercups don't sting @Joyce Goldenlily
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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