nettles
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Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Stinging nettles are a come again plant. Cow parsley, sorrel too. Strangely you can pick a lot of salads now," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
He also had to work to sustain the voracious creatures, foraging daily for nettles to feed them.
From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024
Some are well-known to foragers and farmers market shoppers — nettles, morels, garlic scapes.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Marshall said, “That might have been your sister I saw down by the lake. She was giving the nettles a good thrashing.”
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
