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Definition of Hedge nettle

1. Noun. Perennial herb with an odorless rhizome widespread in moist places in northern hemisphere.

2. Noun. Foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hedge Nettle

hederal hederas hederic hederic acid hederiform hederiform ending heders hedge hedge bindweed hedge fund

hedge funds hedge garlic hedge in hedge maple hedge mustard hedge nettle (current term) hedge one's bets hedge pink hedge sparrow hedge sparrows

hedge thorn hedge tree hedge trees hedge trimmer hedge trimmers hedge violet hedgeapple hedgeapples hedgeberries hedgeberry

Literary usage of Hedge nettle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Flora Medica: A History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain by Benjamin Herbert Barton, Thomas Castle (1877)
"LAMIUM PURPUREUM, L. PURPLE HEDGE-NETTLE,* ou DEAD-NETTLE. ... The Hedge-Nettle is Stachys syh-atica, The only reason the name has been retained here is, ..."

2. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Marsh hedge nettle. 25. MARRUBIUM. Linn.—Horehound. (Of doubtful origin, some say from a town so called in Italy.) Calyx tubular, 5—10-nerved, ..."

3. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"HYSSOP hedge nettle, (Man. p. 792; IF f. 3116.} In fields and thickets, Man. to Mich, and Fla.— Pennsylvania : BUCKS, Bristol ; LEBANON, near Cornwall. 2. ..."

4. Mountain Wild Flowers of America: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names by Julia W. Henshaw (1906)
"The hedge nettle has from six to ten reddish-purple flowers in each of the ... Probably it was called hedge nettle because the leaves resemble those of the ..."

5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Sand hedge nettle. Fig. 3618. Stachys arenicola Britton, Man. 792. 1901. Perennial, very densely pubescent, ii°-3° high. Leaves lanceolate, narrowed at the ..."

6. Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names and by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1906)
"The hedge nettle has from six to ten reddish-purple flowers in each of the whorls that encircle its stem at intervals, and also bears a terminal cluster at ..."

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