OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Boehmeria cylindrica   FAMILY Urticaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Boehmeria cylindrica   FAMILY Urticaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Boehmeria cylindrica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Boehmeria cylindrica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 059-03-001:

Boehmeria cylindrica   FAMILY Urticaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Boehmeria cylindrica

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Boehmeria decurrens

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Boehmeria drummondiana

 

COMMON NAME:
False Nettle, Swamp-nettle


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image of Boehmeria cylindrica, False Nettle, Swamp-nettle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_bocy_001_lvd

        

image of Boehmeria cylindrica, False Nettle, Swamp-nettle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_bocy_005_lvd

        

image of Boehmeria cylindrica, False Nettle, Swamp-nettle

Jerry Bright    jeb_mg_0556

July    Haywood County?    NC

Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District

Inflorescence of small compact glomerules along leafless lateral branches, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Boehmeria cylindrica, False Nettle, Swamp-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm090710_005

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Boehmeria cylindrica, False Nettle, Swamp-nettle

JK Marlow    jkm090710_007

July    Greenville County    SC

Tiny flowers in small headlike clusters arranged along spikes in leaf axils, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

image of Boehmeria cylindrica, False Nettle, Swamp-nettle

Gill Newberry    gn10_boehmeria_cylindric2

October        

image of Boehmeria cylindrica, False Nettle, Swamp-nettle

Gill Newberry    gn10_boehmeria_cylindrica

October        

image of Boehmeria cylindrica, False Nettle, Swamp-nettle

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmbcylindrica_keowee1

Month Unknown        

Similar to Laportea but it lacks stinging hairs and has opposite leaves, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Boehmeria cylindrica   FAMILY Urticaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Boehmeria cylindrica   FAMILY Urticaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Boehmeria cylindrica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Boehmeria cylindrica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 059-03-001:
Boehmeria cylindrica   FAMILY Urticaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Boehmeria cylindrica

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Boehmeria decurrens

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Boehmeria drummondiana

 

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Forb
Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: swamp forests, bottomland forests, bogs, tidal marshes, other marshes, other wetlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stinging trichomes absent

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
Greenish
4 sepals (staminate)/2-4 sepals (pistillate)
Petals absent
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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