Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Urtica gracilis [Urtica dioica subs. gracilis]
- Family
- Urticaceae
- CommonName
- California nettle, American stinging nettle
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1916
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- basin, montane, subalpine, tundra, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- Mosca
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca
- Other Localities
- La Botica, Del Norte
- PhotoRecords
- YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, road to Middle San Francisco Creek trailhead 5 Sept 2021
- Comments
- Nettle grows everywhere in the Watershed in a variety of habitats, perhaps the most customary being under shaded, damp rock outcrops—although it has been found in open meadow and even in the tundra. The one Lower Basin record is along the Rio Grande just before it enters New Mexico. Note that Henning et al. (2014) find two monophyletic clades, one occurring in Europe and Asia (Urtica dioica), the other throughout much of the USA (Urtica gracilis). Stinging nettle is recorded from every USA state except for Mississippi, although with only a few locations in the South and Texas. It follows the Rio Grande drainage in New Mexico down nearly to the Mexican border but no farther down stream.
- Annotation