False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica)

Photographic Location: Burgess Falls State Park in Middle Tennessee.

This wildflower is a member of the Nettle Family (Urticaceae).

Tiny greenish flowers are in small, head-like clusters, arranged in continuous or interrupted spikes in the axils of opposite leaves. Plant lacks stinging hairs.

This species differs from Clearweed (Pilea pumila), the other member of the Nettle Family lacking stinging hairs, in that it does not have a translucent stem and is taller.

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