This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
U. urens is small and coarse, provided with few stings. Leaves deeply and sharply toothed, ovate, petioled, 3 to 5-nerved.
To this Family belong our splendid elm trees; also, the fig and banyan, as well as the hemp plant. These species of nettle are found over the entire Atlantic coast.
 
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