Hedgenettles of 3 species are planted in Bonhoeffer Gardens and appear to do best in locations where Stinging Nettles also thrive. Cooley’s Hedge Nettle is most often found in areas that appear as understory or in forests very close to the northern coast, while the
Rigid Hedge Nettle is more widespread. The 3rd, the Mexican Hedge Nettle is found along the coast from of San Francisco north, perhaps named for the time when all of California was part of Mexico (1822 – 1848), but more likely by Jose Mariano Mozino (1787 – 1803, see URLs below) or as cited, George Bentham (1844). Not often stated, “Latinos were here second.” A herb and a member of the Lamiaceae Family, it and other nettles grow by Kiosk 10. Pilchuck Learning Center’s sponsored Western Washington State University SAM Project extinction possibility is slight for these 3 species, all native to Cascadia. (These nettles are safe to touch, only the Stinging Nettle stings.) Native American uses relate to pain relief, hedge nettles don’t appear to have been used for food though 1 citation below suggests Stachys Mexicana was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys
https://plants.usda.gov/home/classification/46736
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=45368
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Kiosk-10.pdf
https://www.honestquarterly.com/blog/tag/foraging+in+washington+state
https://books.google.com/books?id=m8hAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.huntbotanical.org/admin/uploads/hibd-mcvaugh-sesse-mocino-pp315-626.pdf
http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Stachys%20mexicana&redblue=Both&lifeform=7
If Mexican farmhands were sailors conscripted to serve on the 1st Spanish ship to send a boat ashore (in the Aberdeen, WA area), what became of them?
became botanists
killed
drowned
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