Urtica dioica

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Status

Native

Nomenclature

Urtica dioica L. Euro+Med Plantbase

Species data in Europe

See the complete information sheet in FloraVeg.EU

Habitats

This species has been recorded in the following habitats (only habitats with species frequency > 5% are shown).:
Shady and nutrient-rich forest fringes with perennial vegetation 96%, Mesic to moist disturbed sites, with tall-herb perennial vegetation 94%, Mesic disturbed sites of the Cantabrian Mountains, with perennial vegetation 88%, Temperate and boreal riverine Salix forest 50%, Montane thistle fields of the Cantabrian Mountains 47%, Tall-herb communities of humid meadows 41%, Fringes of nutrient-rich ditches and riverbanks, with tall-herb perennial vegetation 40%, Shady and nutrient-rich forest fringes with winter annuals 33%, Shady and nutrient-rich forest fringes with geophytes 29%, Supramediterranean thistle fields of the Cantabrian Mountains 28%, Disturbed sites with summer annuals 24%, Mediterranean thistle fields 21%, Subnitrophilous disturbed sites with annual pioneer vegetation 21%, Disturbed sites with winter annuals 20%, Corylus thickets 19%, Riverine Fraxinus-Alnus forest, wet at high but not at low water 17%, Southwestern sub-mediterranean deciduous thickets 17%, Pyreneo-Iberian tall-herb communities 17%, Atlantic poor soil thickets 16%, Lowland and collinar riverine Salix scrub 14%, Alnus swamp forests not on acid peat 14%, Quercus-Fraxinus-Carpinus betulus forest on eutrophic and mesotrophic soils 14%, Medio-European rich-soil thickets 14%, Crops with C4 summer weeds 11%, Dry disturbed sites with biennal pioneer vegetation 10%, Atlantic and sub-Atlantic humid pastures 9%, Beds of large Carex species 9%, Pyreneo-Cantabrian neutrophile Fagus forests 8%, Western Palaearctic Taxus baccata forests 8%, Iberoatlantic lauroid forests in humid ravines with Prunus lusitanica 7%, Iberoatlantic Laurus forests 5%