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Warning Alert: for Gardners, landscapers !!!.  

Adultplaytimes1 67M/61F
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3/11/2019 12:46 am
Warning Alert: for Gardners, landscapers !!!.

Yesterday afternoon i was pulling weeds in my fence around my garden when an unknow weed to me stung me like id stuck my hand in a Honets nest !!! Then plant attacts nerves !!!, it,s a very strong burning sting along with the pain of something like having splinters shoved in your fingers & hand... its a slinder upright growing weed about 8 too 12" tall wiith leafs the size of your thumbnaiil kinda hart shaped with jagged edges, its stalk is just under a 1/4" thick & it has fine clear hairs a 1/4" long. Unbeknowing to me there are a huge familyof stinging nettles, i know florida has one very well known with big green leafs & small white flowers, this one isn,t that one. I went to the emergency room for help !!!, that was a big waste of time, gave some pill for infection & scrubed my hand with soap 4 hours after the fact !!!. Double dose of benadryl was of no help !!!. Here it is some 12 hours later & my hand is stiff, still burns like fire & i can barely touch the keypad on my cell phone... does,nt seem to be any swelling from this bee like sting. !!!. Please be very carefull & watch out for this wweed, a or could,nt handle this weeds sting !!!. Rubing alcohol helped some but nowheres near enuff !!!. Ice water was of no help with the burning !!!. Please warn others of this weed & help look for something to help stop it,s pain !!!. I,ve never come acoss a plant this bad for pain other then a catclaw bushs thorns. Think be for you reach & pull & wear thick gloves !!! By all means... i,ll try to take some pics of it & post them as soon as they growup again... Update, i took another double dose of Benadryl around 5:00 am this morning made me drowzy, wokeup @ 7:30 am & most of the burning pain has gone... hands still sensitive & lite pain but much better now . Welp one more double dose of benadryl did the trick, im pain free 24 hours after it started !!!.

2415boxers 64M

12/17/2020 4:38 am

 Time to give up gardening and employ the weed wacker


puravidapanda 41M
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1/20/2022 2:31 am

 I'm sure by now you have identified the plant, but it sounds like a nettle of some kind. There are three in Florida that are stinging: Cnidoscolus stimulosus (common name: Bull Nettle), Urtica dioica, the stinging nettle that you likely have heard of before, and an invasive from Europe, and Urtica urens, or weak nettle and native to Florida. Your description sounds like this last one, but google will show ya pics readily to confirm.

Don't give up gardening, it's a lovely way to spend time. Usually...


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