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June 28, 2012
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Southeastern, New Hampshire
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This is a fairly common plant. But I had avoided trying to identify it for years
because I never saw the flowers. There is only one species in the Boehmeria genus
(in New England). But there is another genus in the same family with very similar,
non-stinging plants: Pilea. The flowers of Small-Spike False Nettle are a spike,
while the flowers of Pilea species are a panicle. In addition, the cystoliths
(concentration of calcium carbonate appearing as minute segments on the leaf) are rounded
in Small-Spike False Nettle but linear in Pilea species.
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