Family: Urticaceae Small Nettle Urtica urens Flowering time: June-August. Annual. Fairly common in most of England on light disturbed soils; gardens, arable and wasteland. Less frequent in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The yellow-green flowers are smaller than those of Common Nettle, not in long catkins and with male and female flowers on the same plant. Light green leaves, deep-toothed, slightly hairy and covered with stinging hairs. Similar: Nettle, Urtica dioica

Small Nettle, Urtica urens
Holton Lee, Dorset. October 2012