View source for Laportea canadensis

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|accepted_name=Laportea canadensis
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Weddell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|place=4, 1: 181. 1854
|year=1854
}}
|common_names=Wood-nettle;grande ortie
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Urtica canadensis
|authority=Linnaeus
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Urticastrum divaricatum
|authority=(Linnaeus) Kuntze
}}
|hierarchy=Urticaceae;Laportea;Laportea canadensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Urticaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Laportea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Laportea canadensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, rhizomatous, with tuberous roots, 3-15 dm, sparsely to densely covered with stinging hairs and nonglandular, nonstinging hairs, stipitate-glandular hairs absent. <b>Leaf</b> blades narrowly to broadly ovate, 6-30 × 3-18 cm, base rounded, truncate, or broadly cuneate, not auriculate, margins regularly serrate, apex acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> with staminate and pistillate flowers in separate panicles, proximal panicles staminate, distal panicles pistillate. <b>Staminate</b> flowers ca. 1-1.5 mm across; tepals5, equal in length; stamens5, opposite tepals; filaments slightly longer than tepals. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers ca. 0.5 mm; tepals 2-4, appressed, inner pair as long as ovary; ovary compressed, nearly orbicular to crescent-shaped; style persistent, feathery, 2-3 mm or more. <b>Achenes</b> strongly compressed, ± orbicular, ca. 2-3 mm. <b>2n</b>=26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early fall.
|habitat=Rich, moist, deciduous forests, often along seepages and streams
|elevation=0-2000 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Native Americans used Laportea canadensis to treat incontinence and tuberculosis, to counteract poison, as a love medicine, and to facilitate childbirth (D.E. Moerman 1986).</p>
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name=Laportea canadensis
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Weddell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Urticastrum divaricatum
|basionyms=Urtica canadensis
|family=Urticaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early fall.
|habitat=Rich, moist, deciduous forests, often along seepages and streams
|elevation=0-2000 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér.
|publication year=1854
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_299.xml
|genus=Laportea
|species=Laportea canadensis
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