Canada wood-nettle, Laportea canadensis

            Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 152/365

I went foraging for nettles today. This woods has lots of Canada wood-nettle, which has a more elegant appearance than stinging nettle. Because it is a native plant, I take only a few of the largest stems from each plant. It must be harvested with gloves, although the stingers are weaker than stinging nettle's. Drying, pureeing, or cooking denatures the stingers. 

Nettles are highly nutritious. Among all plant foods they are one of the richest sources of minerals (calcium, potassium, phosphorous, and magnesium). It can replace cooked spinach in any recipe. Wood-nettle has the advantage over stinging nettle of not becoming tough with maturity, a source of tasty greens through the summer, if only I remember to take some gloves on a walk. 

It has attractive lacy white flowers (like Astilbe) and appealing, unusual seed heads. I'd plant it in a woodland garden, no hesitation.

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Taken on: June 1, 2022

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