I tried most remedies, but nothing seemed to work. After 6 hours of still experiencing the sting, trying to ignore the pain, I began to read about my recent purchase of ecloths. Zappo. A light bulb went off! I rubbed an ecloth over my fingers about 20 times, then repeated this. The sting disappeared nearly instantaneously! Note that an ecloth is not the same as a microfiber cloth.

Hah! Convinced that nettles were "good for you" - they are - I ordered seeds years ago from the seed unit of Mountain Rose Herbs. They literally did go to seed, tho, and have encroached over about a third of my yard. I tried one spring to pull them up and got tendonitis in my arms. Then I found that if you pull them up, or chop up the roots, they form this armored network of roots to defend themselves. I now dry some, eat some in the spring (good soup recipes and pasta recipes are to be found) and then just have my lawn guy now the rest. This is the second year of cutting them down, so hopefully they'll weaken & become more sparse over time. Lesson learned! (as it was with the oregano in my front yard... but that's another story!)

No, not a stinging nettle. Apart from the appearance being different stinging nettles are definitely stingy ;- ) Can you give a geographical location? And some idea of the habitat. Garden? Wild? Woods? Marshes?

I know they usually have lobed leaves, although they are highly variable, and can be single like on this plant, but it's also strange that there aren't any other even partially lobed leaves on the plant at all. I've had a hops vine for a long time. I just wanted to initiate something, because it is interesting. I really have no idea what it could be. It has to bloom sometime.,