Moving stuff from the PC to the new Mac (which is very cool, btw) and came across a bunch of images from this summer. One is of our local hardy Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica.)
I was surprised to find a healthy and striving stand of Nettles here in the Sonoran desert. These individuals have adapted nicely, taking on some of the characteristics of other plants around them. That's a nice way of saying there stinging hairs are more like cactus spines. OUCH! But boy do they make a taste Nettles-Ginger Beer!
Posted by Evo Terra at January 26, 2004 12:57 PM | TrackBack (0)Yum! Nettles ginger beer sounds stupendous!!
I've also noticed that the sonoran nettles have a sting that just doesn't quit. some people say they can collect barehanded, but i've never met a nettle in the west that i can collect bare handed, which i've successfully done once or twice back in the east.