Small-spike False-nettle

This species is in the Nettle Family and looks much like stinging nettle. However, it does not have stinging hairs.



Ground cover in moist sites in casual settings. Very attractive when young, but becomes somewhat weedy and tall as it matures. Probably better suited for restoration than landscaping.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Can become overly abundant. Plant with caution.

Cypress swamps, floodplain forests, wet thickets, stream banks, marshes, wet forests, marshy shores, ditches.

• Interesting foliage
• Larval host for several species of moths.
• Larval host for red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) and eastern comma (Polygonia comma) butterflies.