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Hawai'i woodnettle

Laportea interrupta

Also called Hawaiian Wood Nettle, Hawaii Woodnettle

Hawai'i woodnettle
Photo: Vengolis, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Urticaceae (Nettle family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Trop. & S. Africa, S. Arabian Pen., Mozambique, Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to NW. Pac
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Laportea interrupta is a short-lived annual that grows mainly in seasonally dry tropical regions.

Where it grows

It is naturally found across parts of tropical and southern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Mozambique, and stretches through Tropical and Subtropical Asia and Northern parts of Australia to the northwestern Pacific.

Other Laportea plants

West Indian woodnettle · Canadian woodnettle · Spotted Nettle · River Nettle · Wood Nettle

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Laportea interrupta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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