Sting nettles

I have come realize that there is a stinging nettle plant in my backyard. I discovered this on my finger. It hurt, and I was quite surprised at ho w a plant can actually inject you with acid. Cool stuff.

Anyway, I didn't really know what stinging nettles looked like. So I went to Google, and clicked on the first image it returned.



The image is part of a page that I found funny, though I tend to find humor in lots of places. The first two entries show poison oak and my stinging nettle, with nice pictures of both. The next two entries show pictures a bear and a mountain lion, taken in some dim basement museum somewhere.

It makes the stinging nettle look much fiercer than the bear.