anyone know what this is ? i shot my 9mm around camp , and at the price of ammo these days, i was paying more attention at picking up my brass .. they all fell around this weed ... so I picked them up.... and man my hand turned red and started burning ... ran my hand under water to cool it off and it still stung for a while ... anyone know what this weed is called ?
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Looks similar to what we call Bull Nettle, but that may not be it. The “needles” look the same as Bull nettle, but the leaves look different. Regardless, if it is a type of nettle, it burns like your skin is on fire. Doctor told me to pee on it last time I got into it...I passed and just suffered the burning lol
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Originally posted by Maddox View PostStinging Nettle
Don’t touch it. Id you do, I believe vinegar will relieve the pain/itch.
it looks quite different
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Tragia ramosa Torr.
Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas
Perennial
Height: 4-20 inches
Family: Euphorbiaceae - Spurge Family
Flowering Period: June, July, August, September
Stems: Decumbent to ascending or erect; sap watery.
Leaves: Cauline, alternate, simple; stipules present; petiole 1/25 to 2/5 inch; blade narrowly ovate to linear-lanceolate, 1/5 to 1.6 inch long, 1/8 to 4/5 inch wide, base subcordate to truncate, margins serrate, tip acute.
Inflorescences: Racemes, axillary or terminal, 1/5 to 3/5 inch; staminate and pistillate flowers on same plant, pistillate flowers proximal and staminate flowers distal; staminate flowers 2-20 per raceme, pistillate flowers 1-2 per raceme; staminate bracts lanceolate, 1/16 to 1/12 inch; pistillate bracts 1/25 to 1/16 inch.
Flowers: Staminate flowers greenish: pedicels to 1/12 inch; sepals 3-4, oblanceolate, 1/25 to 1/11 inch; petals 0; stamens 3-6(-10). Pistillate flowers greenish: sepals 6, connate basally, lanceolate, 1/32 to 1/10 inch, shorter than gynoecium (collective term for the pistil(s) of a flower); petals 0; styles 3, connate proximally more than 1/2 their lengths, simple.
Fruits: Capsules 3-lobed, not enveloped by persistent bracts, 1/8 to 1/6 inch long, 1/4 to 1/3 inch wide; seeds dark brown, globose to ovoid, 1/10 to 1/7 inch.
Habitat: Rocky to gravelly tallgrass, mixed-grass, and shortgrass prairies
Distribution: West 4/5 of Kansas
Origin: Native
Comments: The herbage is covered with stiff stinging hairs that are painful when touched, thus the common name nose burn. Tragia, for Hieronymus Bock, a German botanist whose Latinized name was Tragus and ramosa, branched.
See also Betony noseburn
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Originally posted by BURTONboy View PostThe leaves are too small for bull nettle, but as mentioned, likely about the same thing. It burns like heck, and yes, peeing on it does help. Got into it pretty bad as a kid one time, I steer clear these days.
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