Where can you find these plants?
The nettle lives sometimes together with plants like sorrel and dandelion on places where the human leave their mark on nature:
nitrogen and phosphorus traces of the agriculture, humid riversides of nutritious waters, field and forest borders.
A striking picture:
Along the route: a draining dunghill. A long trace of dark of liquid manure has leached out of the heap. and encroach in the soil of the verge. Right on that place you can find the nettle with hundred pieces at once in close bunches with dark green hues.
The nettle also grows on abandoned places like ruins and ditches.
He is not so beautiful and every one that dares to touch him burns the hands.
But if the young spring plants are being plucked and boiled in hot water, the acrimony disappears like snow under the sun and there exist a very aromatic, light bitter taste that seems like spinach.
However the plant is usually associated with human habitation, the seeds and the pollen are generally found in old settlements from before the last ice age.
The big nettle is the favorite plant for the small tortoiseshell and the peacock butterfly.
Above you see the peacock butterfly sitting on the nettle.
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By Bj.schoenmakers (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
The caterpillar of the small tortoiseshell carefully bites off every stinging hair before eating the leave.
They are wonderful butterflies. You could hardly believe that those beautiful colors of those caterpillars exist from eating the leaves of the nettle !
In an old English rhyme it goes about the healing characteristics of nettle leaves:
"Nettle in, dock out. Dock rub nettle out!"
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The nettle fiber plant is the best blood cleansing medicinal herb. The tea of nettles help diminish the sugar amount in the blood. He may also cure diseases and infections of the urinary passage.
Now during spring you can use nettle for a blood cleansing detox.
very nice photo
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