#Stinging Nettles

[cybermanoloart]

My sister and I worked together to make this :) I made the art, she did the research and the talking ❤️

[blessedscavengers]

blackberries, stinging nettles and jewelweed

terfs fuck off

made in 2022

[morethansalad]

Vegetable & Nettle Tempura (Vegan)

[axololtls]

[cherubinym]

i am going to make So many alternate Larvestas bc i Can lol this one is based off the stinging nettle plant :) used a type randomizer to get the combo to try so i tried to go thru my plant obsessed brain to thing of a plant that probably gives some equivalent of being shocked by electricity or just Really Hurts if u touch it lol

[weepingfoxfury]

The man on the radio is in his gentle groove and Lionel is as easy as he's always been on a Sunday morning. Weatherwise we're looking at grey and damp with a hefty side order of grey and damp. Avoided the news, only so much grim I can take in a week. The traffic can take care of itself.

Today's groaner: a painter is hired to whitewash a church. Unfortunately he thins the paint too much and it washes away in the next downpour. The minister has words with the painter who says 'Well minister, what do you want me to do about it?' ... 'Repaint' says the minister 'and thin no more' ;-D badoom tish ... here all week!!

More stuff on the line that will eventually get dry. Probably had the blue towel for over 20 years. It's definitely gotten thinner, but it's still a favourite. It's been all manner of places and carries all kinds of memories. I look at new towels occasionally but I like bright colours and grey and white are favoured on the Emerald Isle, so I stick to what I've got. I smile each time I look at the cheery sun face on my towel and remember friends, different destinations and the sound of the sea.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday and the sunshine has finally made an appearance. Time to hop outside with my mug of coffee and enjoy it ... you just never know how long it'll stick around ...

[turtlesandfrogs]

It is the first day of spring up here in the northern hemisphere, and coincidentally also the first day I got to go nettle foraging this year.

I've been going to this spot for a few years now, and each year I remove some of the invasive species growing there, along with any litter that I see. It's getting better and better, with fewer and fewer Holly trees, herb Roberts, English ivy vines, and so on.

This time I made a soup with the nettles, and added some lima beans I got on a trip. It feels very nice and celebratory, and tastes very good.

[swiftthecardinal]

How these plants will make you feel

This plant will make you feel bad

This plant will make you feel good

This plant will make you feel good. Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da-ca, feel good, Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da-ca, feel good, Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da-ca, feel good, Sha, sha-ba-da, sha-ba-da-ca, feel good

[queer-forager]

A stinging nettle growing out of a log covered in moss. 💚

[Nature Walk & Foraging 03.28.2024]

[halcyonem]

[gardenrables]

Plant nerdery ahead! So I've been foraging stinging nettles for a good while now, and until the past few years, I hadn't really thought much about of they were native or not. First, I was told they were non-native, then somebody told me there was a native subspecies, and then I finally looked it up for myself.

It turns out that we used to think they were sub species, but they're actually different species and can't hybridize. Also! The native one (to the coastal PNW, anyway) , U. gracilis, only has stinging hairs on the bottom of its leaves, while the one from Europe, U. diocia, has stinging hairs on top & bottom! Which is only useful for i.d. purposes if you're willing to get stung! (Which, for the record, I was)

Today I happened to get to visit two different nettle patches, and now that I am looking for it, it seems easy to tell that there's two different species here- but that's the tricky thing- a lot of i.d. factors usually used are plastic in nettles. They vary based on the conditions that the plants are growing in! Later in the year the differences will be more obvious, because gracilis is monoecious (both male and female flowers on the same plant), while diocia is dioecious (plants have either male or female flowers, not both), and diocia branches with flowering while gracilis does not.

References: https://www.wnps.org/native-plant-directory/431:urtica-dioica (which still lists them as subspecies)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260815095_Weeding_the_Nettles_II_A_delimitation_of_'Urtica_dioica_L'_Urticaceae_based_on_morphological_and_molecular_data_including_a_rehabilitation_of_Urtica_gracilis_Ait

[morethansalad]

Oat Flatbread with Roasted Radishes & Cashew Nettle Pesto (Vegan & Gluten-Free)

[ramuneclaws]

Snow leopard with stinging nettles

(Made with water and alcohol marker, fineliner, gel pen, and colored pencil)

The lighting in the photo sucks ass it looks different irl...

[greencheekconure27]

[bethanythebogwitch]

So it turns out there's stinging nettle growing at work. Ask me how i learned this