Stinging nettle may refer to: Urtica dioica, a perennial plant originally native to Europe, much of temperate Asia, and western North Africa, now found worldwide and also to plants of the genus Urtica, and less commonly also of the genera Hesperocnide and Laportea and also specifically to some species of those genera
American stinging nettle, Urtica gracilis, a perennial plant native to much of the North American continent Urtica incisa, a perennial plant native to streams and rainforests of eastern and southern Australia Hawaiian stinging nettle, Hesperocnide sandwicensis, a plant endemic to Hawaii western stinging nettle, Hesperocnide tenella, species of flowering plant native to California and Northern Baja California
See also List of plants known as nettle Stinging plant