Urtica gracilis Ait.
 
FamilyUrticaceae — APG family: Urticaceae
DescriptionStem glabrous or sparingly pilose above; leaves lanceolate to ovate-cuneate or slightly cordate at base, glabrous or sparingly pilose beneath, coarsely toothed; stipules mostly acute; inflorescence monoecious.
EcologyThickets, stream banks. Described from Hudson Bay.
UsesThe young buds, boiled, make an excellent soup.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.