Nettles
| ..... | obvious stinging hairs: | ..... | without stinging hairs: | ..... |
| opposite-lvd | alternate-lvd | opposite-lvd | alternate lvd | |
| panicles, spikes or head-like clusters from the upper axils | stinging nettle (1.Urtica) slender, drooping clusters (0 4 4 0/0 2+2 0 1) | ..... | ..... | ..... |
| staminate fls in cymes from the lower axils; pistillate in loose, elongate, spreading cymes from upper axils | ..... | wood nettle (2.Laportea) stining hairs on fl stalks slender, drooping clusters (0 5 5 0/0 4 0 1) | ..... | ..... |
| fls in axillary spikes; in ball-like clusters in continuous or interrupted axillary clusters | ..... | ..... | false nettle (3.Boehmeria) (0 4 4 0/0 2-4 0 1) | ..... |
| fls in axillary panicles or glomerules; like 2 catkins forming a U-shape in axils | ..... | ..... | clearweed (4.Pilea) (0 4 4 0/0 3 0 1) | ...... |
| axillary clusters | ..... | ..... | ..... | pellitory (5.Parietaria) (0 4 4 0/0 4 0 1) |