Urtica dioica (Stinging Nettle)

This morning I saw an interesting weed growing against the foundation of our house. I figured that I'd let it stand for a while to see what it turned out to be. I started to pull up some of the competing weeds around it and immediately decided that I knew what it was. After washing and soaking my stinging wrist, I looked up "nettle" and determined that indeed this was an individual of the species Urtica dioica, the common stinging nettle that I've met before while walking through fields of tall grass in shorts, but never taking the time to see which plant was causing the burning welts on my legs.





The above pictures were taken today with our Canon Rebel SLR with a 100mm macro zoom lens.