SMALL-SPIKE FALSE-NETTLE
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Boehmeria cylindrica (L. ) Sw.
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| Ottawa County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 16-40 inches |
| Family: Urticaceae - Nettle Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August, September,October |
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| Stems: | | Erect, usually branched. Plants usually monoecious, rarely dioecious, glabrate or strigose, without stinging hairs. | | Leaves: | | Cauline, opposite, simple; petiole .2 to 2 inches; blade lanceolate to broadly ovate, 1.5 to 6 inches long, .8 to 3 inches wide, margins coarsely serrate, tip acuminate. | | Inflorescences: | | Spike-like, axillary | | Flowers: | | Unisexual; staminate flower tepals 4; stamens 4; rudimentary ovary present; pistillate flower tepals 4, connate, adnate to ovary; style 1, persistent, elongate. | | Fruits: | | Achenes ovate to elliptic, .04 to .06 inch, tightly enclosed by persistent tepals. | | Habitat: | | Moist or wet soil of meadows or low woods, marshes, seeps and springs | | Distribution: | | East 4/5 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Named for German botanist and physician Georg Rudolph Boehmer, (1723-1803). |
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