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Top native Urticeae

8 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

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8 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 1 Part shade 2 Dappled shade 1 Full shade 1

Soil and water

Moisture

Well drained 1 Moist 2 Wet 1

Soil

Loam 1 Clay 1 Organic 1

Toughness

Resists

Wet soil 1

Form

Habit

Erect 2 Prostrate 1

Plant type

Annual 2 Edible 2 Herbaceous perennial 2 Perennial 2 Shrub 2 Tree 2 Wildflower 2 Poisonous 1 Weed 1
  • Slender Stinging Nettle Urtica gracilis caterpillars 20 hosts 1 food 4 flowers 9
  • Heartleaf Nettle Urtica chamaedryoides caterpillars 14 food 1 flowers 1
  • Wood Nettle Laportea canadensis caterpillars 6 hosts 2 flowers 20
  • Olonā Touchardia latifolia caterpillars 1
  • Western Nettle Hesperocnide tenella
  • Opuhe Touchardia sandwicensis
  • Hesperocnide sandwicensis
  • Opuhe Urera kaalae

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