قراص كبير

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Opposite, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 4–10 cm long, sharply dentate with ovate acute teeth, slightly unequal; surfaces green, with stinging hairs.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Axillary, in paired paniculiform clusters. Male inflorescences with short lateral branches; female or androgynous ones longer, erect-patent or pendulous. Flowers in dense or somewhat distant fascicles. Sepals 4, equal in staminate flowers (oval, obtuse, pubescent), unequal in pistillate ones, inner usually longer.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Small achenes, ovoid, compressed, glabrous.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers April–September.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Ct. Tripoli; Mi. Ba‘abda, Broummana, Faraya; Mm. Cedars, Hadeth, Dimane to Hasroun, Jabal Kneissé; Me. Dolines of Jabal Sannine, Ouadi Safsaf; Metn: Qabbélias, Ouadi-el-‘Arayech, Jdita.

Native range: Europe, North Africa, Canary Islands, Caucasus, Western Asia (including Lebanon–Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Iran), Central Asia, Himalaya, China, Japan, Russian Far East, and introduced widely elsewhere. (POWO)

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial, dioecious (sometimes monoecious), with short, creeping rhizome, somewhat woody. Stems erect, quadrangular, 15 cm–1 m tall, simple or few-branched, green like the foliage.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Urtica dioica

الفصيلة

قراصية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

قُريص حباني

Urtica pilulifera

حومشة

Urtica urens

عشبة الجرح

Parietaria lusitanica

عشبة الدم

Parietaria judaica