False Nettle
Boehmeria cylindrica
False nettle is a stingless nettle relative of wet woods and marsh edges, an essential larval host for red admiral, question mark, and comma butterflies. Unshowy but ecologically valuable.
- Family
- Urticaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3.9–3.9 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green, brown
- Wildlife value
- butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- border
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV