In article , Nick Maclaren
writes

In article , Kay
writes:
| In article , Nick Maclaren
| writes
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| There are, indeed, several species in the UK.
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| Only two, AFAIK, unless you are going to count the wall pellitories
| which are the same family but not the same genus.

You have forgotten Urtica pilulifera, the Roman or small nettle,
I think.

It's not in Stace and therefore I presume not UK. I've certainly never
seen it here.


--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

In article ,
Kay wrote:

You have forgotten Urtica pilulifera, the Roman or small nettle,
I think.

It's not in Stace and therefore I presume not UK. I've certainly never
seen it here.

Upon checking with CTW (of 30 years back), it was classed as a
formerly rare alien, possible extinct. Either it is definitely
extinct or has been Expelled From The British Flora As Not A
Native Plant. Botany has its Howards, Blunketts and Clarkes, too.

Exactly how you determine whether a plant like that (i.e. rare,
hence absence of pollen is no evidence of absence, and been known
since time immemorial) was introduced by the Romans or by passing
birds, don't ask me. One would make it an alien and the other a
native. But there's no arguing with dogma.



Regards,
Nick Maclaren.