Urtica Collection

Plants / Urtica Dioica
Common Nettle or Stinging Nettle

Roman nettle, Urtica pilulifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1793

Stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, and hemp nettle, Galeopsis speciosa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Nettle, Urtica dioica, and dwarf nettle, Urtica urens. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Leaf vegetables, Herbes potageres. Chard, Beta vulgaris, nettle, Urtica dioica, rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum, garden orache, Atriplex hortensis

Ramie or China grass, Boehmeria nivea, Urtica nivea, Ortie blanche. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Common tailorbird, stinging nettle and aardvark
Common tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius with nest, stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, and aardvark, Orycteropus afer. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Stinging nettle, Urtica dioica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Curtis British Entomology Plate 536
Hymenoptera: Pezomachus hopei = Agrothereutes abbreviator (Short-winged Ichneumon) [Plant: Urtica pilulifera (Roman Nettle)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 288
Lepidoptera: Hypena crassalis (Beautiful Snout) [Plant: Urtica dioica (Common Nettle)] Date: 1824-39

Illustration, Nymphalidae -- Vanessa Xanthomelas, Vanessa C-album, Vanessa Cardui, Vanessa Levana (variety Prorsa). The plants are Spear Thistle (Cirsium Lanceolatum)

Stinging nettle, Urtica arvens.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

Urtica dioica, stinging nettle
A herb which has various medicinal benefits and produces tiny hairs that sting when in contact with skin due to the presence of histamine and formic acid

Laportea interrupta (L. ) Chew, woodnettle
A specimen from the Paul Hermann collection of five volumes of specimens and drawings from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1672-1677. (Vol. 3 Page 1)

Urtica foliis, nettles
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

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