When the snow arrived on February 25th
bringing more than a week of late winter weather
the stinging nettle was one of the tall dry weeds still available for this chronicle.

Like several of the others
it had also already started its spring season.
So if not for the snow
the purple spring shoots would have been on display here a month ago.

Urtica dioica
Brännässla i september, i november i januari och i mars
Eva Ekeblad, 2001