Very common where I live and historically eaten after steaming. Can be painful on more sensitive skin (inside of arms, neck, etc.). Some people say that brushing affected areas with equisetum (horsetail) will lessen the sting, but I find it best to just avoid contact...
You really know yur stuff. Are nettles found in the South? Do you just eat the leaves? How can one eat something that is so toxic to the skin?
You really know yur stuff. Are nettles found in the South? Do you just eat the leaves? How can one eat something that is so toxic to the skin?
You really know yur stuff. Are nettles found in the South? Do you just eat the leaves? How can one eat something that is so toxic to the skin?
Those grow in profusion in the higher elevations of the San Bernardino, San Gorgonio, and San Jacinto Mountains in Southern California.
I am hyper-hyper sensitive to nettles. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about them.
I could roll around naked all day in poison ivy or poison ok and not have a bit of a problem but nettles THE PLANT FROM HELL!!!!
So anybody out there who wants to eat them, PLEASE, CHOW DOWN!!