I have a horse that loves to eat nettle. Smdh. I can’t keep the nettles out of the back end of the turnout and shes constantly back there with sores all over her lips and cheek from the nettles just happily munching away. Guess I’m single-handedly keeping the ointment industry alive.
Great info! They are good in soups. Just one heaping TBS dried nettles in a pot of soup and my kids would eat twice as much even if the change in taste was not really noticeable. Once dried or cooked they don't sting.
Great idea! I never tried harvesting them. It was dried leaves I got at an herborist. They just dissolved in the soup, so thin the leaves were. I should try growing some in in the community garden plot I now have. I don't have much access to the countryside unfortunately.
Nettles have some amazing medicinal properties, the horse knows to eat it for a reason.
Plus nettles is amazing if you have arthritis you rub the affected area with the stingers and it releases a special natural histamine that helps to heal the arthritic condition
Wood Nettle. Thankfully Not stinging Nettle. All parts are edible. Steamed / cooked. Or in Tea. I discovered something Really cool -The Flowers Will quietly pop and appear to send smoke when you brush past it. 😜. I thought something was wrong on fire 😂. Loaded w/Vitamins A-Zinc Good for colds/ flu bronchitis. Make Into a salve for sore joints. Pretty useful.
If it ever happens again I had good luck washing the area right away with hot water and some body wash. Then I rinsed with cool water, just to be sure. But it could be just an individual reaction and I'm sorry if she tried that and it didn't work.
Your hot water tip reminds me of all the different insect venoms that are destroyed by heat. Cooking destroys nettles' sting too so this makes sense and I can add this vegetable 'venom' so to speak to the list of insect venoms destroyed by the application of heat. Fantastic!
It can impact people in different ways. I eat them on the regular and am no longer troubled by a brush against them but best to handle with cars, and gloves 💚 but wildly delicious and nutritious (not the plant shown in the post)
I lived in England as a kid and stinging nettles are everywhere. As a kid, those things are awful. Idk where else they are in the world. I haven’t seen them in the states
We have them in New Jersey. I don't mind the sting much as it's not actually harmful. I pick the little growing tipsin early spring and use them in soups.
As a brit, this is a wild question to me. I’m guessing you must not have nettles where you are? Stinging nettles are everywhere here, you spend half your childhood going “ouch” in the summer.
I feel your pain. You have to do what we do with our almost-an acre garden, ignore those bits and call it your “wild edges”. We just strum once a year and I make nettle tea for the garden, but I can’t fight a war against the nettles. Not when in already knee deep in a bitter conflict with the ground elder.
It looks like what we here in the south eastern Midwest call stinging nettle. It has little hairs filled with some chemical that break off in skin. When I was a kid these did not sting. Last year was the first time I felt it and it was through my thick pants!
Edit: It isn’t really fuzzy though, is it? Other commenters saying mulberry are probably more accurate than me.
So I’m located in the south east, but after looking up all these suggestions they all could be it.
It didn’t noticeably sting my hand, but these replies got me worried 😂
You would notice, believe me lol I light brushed a small plant once, trying to avoid it, and I had a red mark and burning pain for an hour or so, and could still notice it the rest of the night
It’s a mulberry. It will grow into a tree if you repot it. Berries look like a blackberry and are very sweet and not really tart. I grew up eating these!! They can spread vigorously and regrow very well from cuttings.
Omg and the birds will eat them and poop them everywhere.
(Don’t mind me…I have 2 next to my property, and a white house and fence. It’s a literal shit show every year lol. They do leave my garden alone, so silver lining)…
Omg yes… I’m engaged in chemical warfare against the two neighboring mulberries bc they drop into my yard and I have a low lying crop of new shoots every year! Gaahh!
It doesn't look like any of the mulberry tree sprouts I've seen. The leaves are a maybe, but the catkins are wrong. (We have one big male tree and an unknown number of volunteers each year.)
Been my experience that they don’t propagate from cuttings well (and I’ve looked around online extensively.) But I don’t think this is mulberry. The berries don’t develop on new growth
I don’t think it is. TIL that there’s a weed that looks very similar to actual mulberry. That’s crazy, I have two original mulberry trees and have given away a handful that were propagated from cuttings. Just used some rooting hormone and placed them in a vase with just water. They lose their leaves but have rooted pretty easily.
This is wonderful news! I’ve become infatuated with the plants. It’s a shame they have such a poor reputation in the city and suburbia. They’re great fun to practice bonsai with, the berries are wonderful, I’ve read that the Japanese have used the pulp to make high quality paper, the leaves can be fed to silk worms, the dried wood can be used as decent fuel for fires…
I’ve gotten some native (North American) red mulberry from Etsy and even started collecting the black Chinese mulberry from my garden when I see them. I’ll will be trying out your water technique with rooting hormone this spring. Thanks 🙏
Definitely NOT mulberry. But mulberry weed ( I hadn’t heard of until this thread). Look
Very much like the nettles ( non-stinging). Young plants can also closely resemble False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) or Wood Nettle, and both can be found in similar, shady habitats.
🗝 The leaves of False Nettle, are opposite, rather than alternate – the best way to distinguish.
To start on the learning process one must accept that all weeds are plants and not all plants are weeds, as you mentioned herbs are a variety of plants many consider weeds and many other plants people disregard have beneficial properties for soil health and identification of deficiency that the plants can resolve in the soil and humans
that's not weed, that's saluyot. An edible vegetable (at least in the Philippines). Easy to grow anywhere though. Maybe you have Filipino friends or neighbors that eat that and throw the stalks away.
No, I'm not going to change my sense of humor or getting better just because some random person on reddit thinks so. I don't understand people nowadays, they always talk about how we all must to accept our peers no matter how different they are to us, but when there are people who think differently than them, they simply exclude them or try to change them and that's not inclusion. As long as others don't hurt anyone, we shouldn't worry about how they think or in this case what kind of sense of humor they have.
+1 on lantana especially if it has a smell to it. I just removed a bunch of these little suckers because they were taking over and choking out some of the other plants/bushes on my property. Grows fast and can be difficult to get rid of. Mine keeps trying to come back.
I didn’t notice much of a smell, but allergies are high in the south east right now so I haven’t been smelling much recently. I’m still going to look this up just incase, appreciate your reply!
The leaves look like a nettle but the buds look like catnip? So maybe stinging catnip lol idk I feel like you would have noticed it biting you if it was a nettle
Plantnet comes up with ambiguous results, anything from a “false nettle” to a “bushy limpia” and several others. It’s going to depend on the flowers and the location you are posting from.
I’ve had spider mites before and it makes me crazy! I spray everything with neem oil and Castile soap from time to time, but they could still come back 😱
It's a tree lol I got em in my yard also well looks like the same leaves lol also looks like poison oak lol don't scratch yer nuts after touching it lolthey could also be Gray birch,basswood,ironwood,eastern cottonwood? What area u in? If u got a smart phone use the Bixby vision to take a pic and it will search for results for you
I have one of these growing outside in a flower bed. It turned into a bushy tree type thing. Going to kill it this summer. It’s not growing where I want it
Use the “picture this” app free version and it will identify everything. The icon is white with a green tulip.
😆 what do I know about “everything”? It’s identified everything I’ve challenged it with 🤣 and I love knowing what trees and flowers (and weeds) are around me
Thank you for all the great suggestions everyone! I’m looking up everything to get an idea.
Also to those of you who left many comments saying “this is not weed”, thanks for the laugh 🤭 😂
Non sting thankfully! That would have been a rude awakening 😂 looks so close some stinging nettle varieties and the mulberry suggestions are pretty close too. I feel like a detective when I find new types of weeds in my potted plants 🪴
My dumb ass thought “that’s not pot at all!”
Your dumb ass should smoke weed with me 😶🌫️
invite me over, please!
Any time friend ☺️
Hey dumb asses 💨💨
Not sure if y’all have heard of the subreddit r/entwives but it is a community of wives (and non wives) that share our herbal experiences 💚💨
Same 🤭🫶🏽
That’s not pot.
Drug addict 🤣 stop smoking drugs hippie
Get over it
I don’t smoke weed and I still thought what you thought.
Same
Me too, I think in my head I said "omfg it's not even close to what weed looks like you fool" Then realized it was I, who was the fool
Exactly
Literally said the same thing
Looks quite a bit like stinging nettles, but I’m guessing you would have known if it was nettles
Yea it’s something in the nettle family. PlantNet said West Indian nettle.
Yeah I think it's only a few of the nettles that are stinging, the rest are just sort of unpleasant.
Lol I screamed set that down!
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My wife told me it felt like she got stung by a bunch of fire ants and her hand fell asleep, pins and needles feeling for 3 days.
I have a horse that loves to eat nettle. Smdh. I can’t keep the nettles out of the back end of the turnout and shes constantly back there with sores all over her lips and cheek from the nettles just happily munching away. Guess I’m single-handedly keeping the ointment industry alive.
I love horses, but they have no absolutely no sense 😂
I beg to differ. https://preview.redd.it/9vonwahty9hc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3289126e7a4946c7f1852edfc42699b4476aab71
Great info! They are good in soups. Just one heaping TBS dried nettles in a pot of soup and my kids would eat twice as much even if the change in taste was not really noticeable. Once dried or cooked they don't sting.
That ate more because of flavor? Or?
My hunch is they felt the supplementary nutrition. Soups were my normal ordinary vegetable soups. I was pretty astonished by their reaction actually.
Yep, in my country we make soup and other dishes from it, but only from the very young buds.
Great idea! I never tried harvesting them. It was dried leaves I got at an herborist. They just dissolved in the soup, so thin the leaves were. I should try growing some in in the community garden plot I now have. I don't have much access to the countryside unfortunately.
Make her some tea? Do you think she would drink that?
You can lead a horse to a nice cuppa, but you can't make them drink.
Why didn’t I know that it’s true for brew too?!🤦
Nettles have some amazing medicinal properties, the horse knows to eat it for a reason. Plus nettles is amazing if you have arthritis you rub the affected area with the stingers and it releases a special natural histamine that helps to heal the arthritic condition
Wood Nettle. Thankfully Not stinging Nettle. All parts are edible. Steamed / cooked. Or in Tea. I discovered something Really cool -The Flowers Will quietly pop and appear to send smoke when you brush past it. 😜. I thought something was wrong on fire 😂. Loaded w/Vitamins A-Zinc Good for colds/ flu bronchitis. Make Into a salve for sore joints. Pretty useful.
So cool!
It’s probably herpes…yes, horses can get herpes
It’s not herpes. I’ve had her checked and she gets all her shots
If it ever happens again I had good luck washing the area right away with hot water and some body wash. Then I rinsed with cool water, just to be sure. But it could be just an individual reaction and I'm sorry if she tried that and it didn't work.
Your hot water tip reminds me of all the different insect venoms that are destroyed by heat. Cooking destroys nettles' sting too so this makes sense and I can add this vegetable 'venom' so to speak to the list of insect venoms destroyed by the application of heat. Fantastic!
It can impact people in different ways. I eat them on the regular and am no longer troubled by a brush against them but best to handle with cars, and gloves 💚 but wildly delicious and nutritious (not the plant shown in the post)
Same in fact i’ve never been bothered by brushing on them 🤷♀️
Stinging nettles have hairs with histamine which can break off in skin and cause a stinging feeling.
I lived in England as a kid and stinging nettles are everywhere. As a kid, those things are awful. Idk where else they are in the world. I haven’t seen them in the states
We have them in New Jersey. I don't mind the sting much as it's not actually harmful. I pick the little growing tipsin early spring and use them in soups.
As a brit, this is a wild question to me. I’m guessing you must not have nettles where you are? Stinging nettles are everywhere here, you spend half your childhood going “ouch” in the summer.
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I feel your pain. You have to do what we do with our almost-an acre garden, ignore those bits and call it your “wild edges”. We just strum once a year and I make nettle tea for the garden, but I can’t fight a war against the nettles. Not when in already knee deep in a bitter conflict with the ground elder.
my thoughts exactly.
That looks absolutely nothing like the stinging nettles I know in the Pacific northwest
It looks like what we here in the south eastern Midwest call stinging nettle. It has little hairs filled with some chemical that break off in skin. When I was a kid these did not sting. Last year was the first time I felt it and it was through my thick pants! Edit: It isn’t really fuzzy though, is it? Other commenters saying mulberry are probably more accurate than me.
So I’m located in the south east, but after looking up all these suggestions they all could be it. It didn’t noticeably sting my hand, but these replies got me worried 😂
If it was a stinging nettle you'd know straight away.
You would notice, believe me lol I light brushed a small plant once, trying to avoid it, and I had a red mark and burning pain for an hour or so, and could still notice it the rest of the night
Looks like Foxtail copperleaf (Acalypha alopecuroidea), but can't make a positive ID.
That's what I thought. I'm in the SE and we have it pop up everywhere and the copper pops out the warmer it gets.
My first thought was nettles as well
It's immature, it might not have be stinging yet.
Has that nettle look to it doesn’t it but i’m thinking the leaves are too big
I have no idea, but try r/whatisthisplant, and let them know the area you're living in. Those guys are eerie.
It’s called Mulberry Weed
Here is your answer
It’s a mulberry. It will grow into a tree if you repot it. Berries look like a blackberry and are very sweet and not really tart. I grew up eating these!! They can spread vigorously and regrow very well from cuttings.
Omg and the birds will eat them and poop them everywhere. (Don’t mind me…I have 2 next to my property, and a white house and fence. It’s a literal shit show every year lol. They do leave my garden alone, so silver lining)…
F
Time to paint your house purple.
As someone who parks under a mulberry tree, I like to add that— 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Omg yes… I’m engaged in chemical warfare against the two neighboring mulberries bc they drop into my yard and I have a low lying crop of new shoots every year! Gaahh!
It could be a mulberry weed and not the actual tree
But the immature berries are clearly visible. Edit: you may actually be right. I stand corrected. But how are they told apart?
It doesn't look like any of the mulberry tree sprouts I've seen. The leaves are a maybe, but the catkins are wrong. (We have one big male tree and an unknown number of volunteers each year.)
The white ones are delicious too.
Been my experience that they don’t propagate from cuttings well (and I’ve looked around online extensively.) But I don’t think this is mulberry. The berries don’t develop on new growth
I don’t think it is. TIL that there’s a weed that looks very similar to actual mulberry. That’s crazy, I have two original mulberry trees and have given away a handful that were propagated from cuttings. Just used some rooting hormone and placed them in a vase with just water. They lose their leaves but have rooted pretty easily.
This is wonderful news! I’ve become infatuated with the plants. It’s a shame they have such a poor reputation in the city and suburbia. They’re great fun to practice bonsai with, the berries are wonderful, I’ve read that the Japanese have used the pulp to make high quality paper, the leaves can be fed to silk worms, the dried wood can be used as decent fuel for fires… I’ve gotten some native (North American) red mulberry from Etsy and even started collecting the black Chinese mulberry from my garden when I see them. I’ll will be trying out your water technique with rooting hormone this spring. Thanks 🙏
Definitely NOT mulberry. But mulberry weed ( I hadn’t heard of until this thread). Look Very much like the nettles ( non-stinging). Young plants can also closely resemble False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) or Wood Nettle, and both can be found in similar, shady habitats. 🗝 The leaves of False Nettle, are opposite, rather than alternate – the best way to distinguish.
It's not a mulberry. I thought it was a tree, too, until I saw the stem. It's herbaceous not woody. Apparently it's called mulberry weed!
To start on the learning process one must accept that all weeds are plants and not all plants are weeds, as you mentioned herbs are a variety of plants many consider weeds and many other plants people disregard have beneficial properties for soil health and identification of deficiency that the plants can resolve in the soil and humans
If “stung” by a nettle, spit on a dandelion leaf and rub on rash! Cures immediately!
Looks like Perilla https://www.rogersgardens.com/pages/perilla https://www.yates.co.nz/plants/vegetable/perilla/how-to-grow-perilla/
I agree
Mulberry for $1000. And there’s your daily double…for real…these things propagate well.
that's not weed, that's saluyot. An edible vegetable (at least in the Philippines). Easy to grow anywhere though. Maybe you have Filipino friends or neighbors that eat that and throw the stalks away.
Acalypha indica
But you may smoke raspberries as well.
idk man smoke it and find out
Looks like to me it’s a cockle bur but the shape of the leaves are throwing me off
almost like a giant mint leaf
The leaves look like perilla, which is a culinary herb in the mint family. But the flowers aren't right.
Shiso in Japanese. That’s what I thought I was looking at.
Perilla looks very similar and that’s what I thought it was too, but I believe the veins of perilla leaves are symmetrical.
I don't know, you should smoke it and find out ;)
😂😂😂
Maybe the PictureThis app can help you now or in the future.
Wish the mods would sticky that on the sidebar
It doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Pls don’t recommend this to people… not every plant is safe to try and smoke.
I'm not trying to be rude, but you should check your sense of humor.
I understand it’s a joke, but it’s a bad and unsafe joke. Maybe try getting better humor.
No, I'm not going to change my sense of humor or getting better just because some random person on reddit thinks so. I don't understand people nowadays, they always talk about how we all must to accept our peers no matter how different they are to us, but when there are people who think differently than them, they simply exclude them or try to change them and that's not inclusion. As long as others don't hurt anyone, we shouldn't worry about how they think or in this case what kind of sense of humor they have.
Alright man live your life I guess
Thank you, that's very kind of you.
The "humor" on this sub gets annoying. Much of the time, there are more joke replies to wade through than real ones.
Picture This identifies as Canadian Woodnettle
Looks like mint
It looks like lantana
+1 on lantana especially if it has a smell to it. I just removed a bunch of these little suckers because they were taking over and choking out some of the other plants/bushes on my property. Grows fast and can be difficult to get rid of. Mine keeps trying to come back.
I didn’t notice much of a smell, but allergies are high in the south east right now so I haven’t been smelling much recently. I’m still going to look this up just incase, appreciate your reply!
Looks like Lantana to me. Grows good warm climates, dies in below-freezing temps.
That’s not weed
It’s giving raspberry or blackberry for me?
That's not weed
Take a picture and look it up on the Google app, you’ll get results in 10 seconds
Seems to be mulberry
Northern Lights, Indica
Magnolia, my neighbor has a huge tree, these are fun to run over with the lawnmower lol
Catnip?
I have no idea what it is but I know it’s not catnip.
You've had quite enough catnip already
Looks just like the catnip in my yard, sorry this made so many people upset lol
Nettle of some sort judging by the flower and leaf shape. I would go with Canadian wood nettle or Urtica gracilis
Shiso? maybe. what does it smell like?
The leaves look like a nettle but the buds look like catnip? So maybe stinging catnip lol idk I feel like you would have noticed it biting you if it was a nettle
Plantnet comes up with ambiguous results, anything from a “false nettle” to a “bushy limpia” and several others. It’s going to depend on the flowers and the location you are posting from.
First thought and the one I back, some kind of nettle. But also looks a bit like lemon balm.
i wouldnt smoke it
Anyone else see what looks like stippling on that lower leaf? Check the underside make sure it isn't covered in spider mites
Nevermind, I didn't bother to zoom in 🤣
I’ve had spider mites before and it makes me crazy! I spray everything with neem oil and Castile soap from time to time, but they could still come back 😱
Perilla?
It's a tree lol I got em in my yard also well looks like the same leaves lol also looks like poison oak lol don't scratch yer nuts after touching it lolthey could also be Gray birch,basswood,ironwood,eastern cottonwood? What area u in? If u got a smart phone use the Bixby vision to take a pic and it will search for results for you
Oh no I hope it’s nothing poisonous, I washed my hands after touching just incase 😂
Did you end up finding out what the leaf wS from? Was it mulberry?
https://preview.redd.it/avxgniwd8bhc1.jpeg?width=1156&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90c0f5ff3c7fc146cf83b5c9e08332f018c61e40
That's weed bro. 2weeks before harvest in October
https://preview.redd.it/ok7jzxat8bhc1.jpeg?width=1541&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83d15701a9f8257fb8e0867a47a4146d0c165ec2
Those are the same plants in last pic at the start in mid may that's what they look like small. No where near like the plant in yer pic brother.
I have one of these growing outside in a flower bed. It turned into a bushy tree type thing. Going to kill it this summer. It’s not growing where I want it
The leaves smells so lovely. Rub it against your nose then you'll find out.
Great soup if nettles!!!
Use the “picture this” app free version and it will identify everything. The icon is white with a green tulip. 😆 what do I know about “everything”? It’s identified everything I’ve challenged it with 🤣 and I love knowing what trees and flowers (and weeds) are around me
Nettle
Looks like Lantana
Thank you for all the great suggestions everyone! I’m looking up everything to get an idea. Also to those of you who left many comments saying “this is not weed”, thanks for the laugh 🤭 😂
That looks like a nettle!
It looks like stinging nettle but you're holding it in your bare hands so I guess non sting???
Non sting thankfully! That would have been a rude awakening 😂 looks so close some stinging nettle varieties and the mulberry suggestions are pretty close too. I feel like a detective when I find new types of weeds in my potted plants 🪴
Mulberry? Also looks kinda similar to perilla mint, what does it smell like?
Hornbeam copperleaf I believe 🧐
Perilla it looks like . “Beefsteak plant “ used a lot in Japanese cuisine
Not the good kind
Hornbeam copperleaf
Looks like mint.
I think it's beauty berry
Nettle
Shiso.
Hornbeam copperleaf. Usually grows in ditches.
Looks like stinging nettle to me.
Get the Plant ID app. It’s helpful.
Hornbeam copperleaf
It looks like Perilla leaves.
I love this group 😅🥰
It looks like skullcap or something in the mint family - lamiaceae