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
- 1–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- wet, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- green
- Wildlife value
- larval host
- Landscape uses
- border, rain garden
- Native states
- AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV