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Lost_Warrior

This is what is commonly known as "horseitch" or a close relative of it.

 

Yes, I am holding it. I don't know if this stuff loses its ability to sting in certain conditions (it WAS after heavy rains that this picture was taken) or if I have grown immune to it after being exposed to it enough, but believe me it CAN sting. And raise itchy red welts that last for hours at least.

 

Seems to grow in wet, marshy areas. I have a whole bank of it at my house.

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now that looks like a very heavy leafed white nettle variant-if boiled when fresh an excellent anti scorbutic (scurvy) , the European peasantry awaited fresh growths of these in spring to bring relief from a diet bereft of vitamin c (not that they knew that , they just had scabby skin and felt lousy-ah well , thats the Dark Ages for you!).

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There is a much smaller, "fuzzy" leafed version, which looks very similar and that stuff is NASTY. It will leave stings that burn for hours...at the slightest touch. I learned about that just before learning about jewel weed :)

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