Plant Description:

• Tall, upright, square-stemmed plant
• Dark green leaves opposite to each other with a wide bottom coming to a point at the tip; leaves are covered in stinging hairs that contain small amounts of formic acid which can pierce the skin and cause skin irritation
• Greenish ball-like flowers in long, drooping clusters at plant top and at leaf axils
• Occur in sloughs, marshes and other wet depressions
• Leaves can boiled and eaten like spinach
• Can be made into a tea for treating kidney stones and congested lungs
• Found at Stops 3, 8, and 11

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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