How to Identify Horse Nettle The horse nettle plant has wide-spread branches scattered with thorns. It’s got alternating leaves, which are 2-4 inches long and oval-shaped with wavy edges.

The entire plant is covered with fine stinging hairs and grows from 3-7 feet tall in temperate climates. (Warm climate Urtica dioica can grow up to 20 feet tall.) Stalks are hollow and squarish ...

A plant with a vigorous network of rhizomes can easily expand 5 feet or more in width a year. In the wild, noxious stinging nettle is known to create colonies covering an acre or more of earth.

Stinging nettle is a weed that can grow up to 8 feet and can cause an allergic rash if you touch it. But it also has some health benefits.

Forager Nicole Zempel shares how to harvest the bounty of the nettle plant. Forager Nicole Zempel shares how to harvest the food, medicinal and other benefits of the stinging nettle plant. One of ...

Note: If you think you’ve come in contact with a poisonous plant and need help, call NC Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222. Here are plants with which you should make yourself familiar: ...

Note: If you think you’ve come in contact with a poisonous plant and need help, call NC Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222. Here are plants with which you should make yourself familiar: ...