Urtica dioica · Probable
Nettle
Urtica dioica
Common nettle as the probable identity of Agrippa's nettle.
Profile research status
This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.
Direct connections and evidence
Cross Source
plant associated with Mars
2 attestations · high confidence
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book OneBook One, English edition based on the 1651 J. F. translation · Library of Congress · Renaissance Europe, c. 1533 · Renaissance Europe · Book Book One · Chapter XXVII · Section Of those things which are under the power of Mars · Page 101-102
- Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete HerbalNew edition with additions by Thomas Kelly · Project Gutenberg · Seventeenth-century England · England · Entry Nettles · Section Government and virtues · Page 127-128
Reviewed sources
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book One (1898)Book One, English edition based on the 1651 J. F. translation · Library of Congress
- Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (1850)New edition with additions by Thomas Kelly · Project Gutenberg