Can someone confirm if this plant is a stinging nettle? It has a hollow stem and a milky white substance.
That's not the stinging nettle I'm familiar with, Urtica dioica. Does it sting when you brush it across your skin?
I didn't try to get stung as I had nothing with me to subdue the sting. Can someone tell me where to find a nettle patch in Vancouver?
Not a stinging nettle. Milky sap (in this case, with alternate leaves) implies a member of the aster family. If you search for stinging nettle on the forums, there was a recent discussion about locations.
There is ambiguous info on the web: not milky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsana milky: http://www.pnwflowers.com/flower/lapsana-communis http://digitalcollections.pugetsound.edu/cdm/search/collection/wwaflora/searchterm/Milky/mode/exact http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?609,1481,1482
I have seen the sap many times. It wouldn't surprise me if the tradition of using it for women's breasts was prompted by its appearance.
Stressing all my imagination, I could not find any resemblance of the Lapsana buds to the nipples, as Wikipedia suggests.
Not tested it personally, but I'd not be surprised if it varies with the time of year / condition of the plant, with milky sap from soft, fast-growing plants in spring, but not from senescent post-flowering plants in late summer or autumn.
I found these this morning. It's only about a few inches high. It looks like the nettle on Google images. Can someone confirm? Thank you!
YAY, FINALLY!, I have found the Nettle. Thanks for the confirmation Woodschmoe. Not sure if I want to eat it. Just wanted to know if it was Nettle.
Hi Daniel. I am not able to locate the lost that listed the locations. Could you please direct me to the post or repost? Thank you!
Not sure, I don't remember what was going on in my head a couple days ago, never mind a couple months. Here's a search for [SEARCH]nettle[/SEARCH], I guess it might be the one titled "Stinging Nettles Wanted".
