Intro: Upright perennial covered in stinging hairs, found in moist, nutrient-rich forests and seepage swamps, especially abundant in cove forests in the Mountains and bottomlands in the Piedmont.

Stems: Stems stout, covered with stinging hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, oval and with long pointed tips, 2-6 in. long, with prominent veins, sharply toothed,.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Male and female flowers in separate branching clusters arising from leaf axils, the female ones toward top of plant. Female flowers with 4 tiny, greenish-white sepals, and male flowers with 5 sepals (no petals).

Fruits: Fruit an achene containing 1 shiny, black seed.

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Height: 1-3.5 ft.

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description: Upright perennial covered in stinging hairs, found in moist, nutrient-rich forests and seepage swamps, especially abundant in cove forests in the Mountains and bottomlands in the Piedmont.

stems: Stems stout, covered with stinging hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, oval and with long pointed tips, 2-6 in. long, with prominent veins, sharply toothed,.

inflorescence:

flowers: Male and female flowers in separate branching clusters arising from leaf axils, the female ones toward top of plant. Female flowers with 4 tiny, greenish-white sepals, and male flowers with 5 sepals (no petals).

fruits: Fruit an achene containing 1 shiny, black seed.

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native range: eastern North America