Nettles

Nettles are the key ingredient in Nettle tea. Players must wear gloves in order to pick nettles. If no gloves are worn, no nettles will be obtained and the player will be dealt up to 20 Life Points of damage. The hitsplat is green like poison, but the player does not get poisoned. Notice that the message in the chatbox says, "You have been stung by the nettles." instead of "You have been poisoned."

Uses
The two main uses for nettles are for making tea during quests and for controlled damage.
 * Nettles are used in the quest Ghosts Ahoy and the Mogre miniquest. Full directions on how to make nettle tea can be found here.
 * The controlled damage is useful to those who wish to take advantage of the special effect of the Dharok's set which requires low life points.

Obtaining nettles
If players want to pick nettles, they must wear gloves to avoid being damaged. Some gloves do not allow players to pick nettles and these gloves do not prevent the damage.

Gloves that work

 * Canifis gloves
 * Cooking gauntlets
 * Flame gloves
 * Ghostly gloves
 * Chaos gauntlets
 * Gloves of silence
 * H.a.m. gloves
 * Hati paws
 * Ice gloves
 * Karamja gloves
 * Klank's gauntlets
 * Leather gloves
 * Mime gloves
 * Mystic gloves
 * Penance gloves
 * Recipe for Disaster gloves
 * Rock-shell gloves
 * Safety gloves
 * Void knight gloves
 * Worn-out gauntlets
 * Goldsmith gauntlets
 * Ganodermic gloves
 * Zombie gloves

Gloves that don't work

 * Santa costume gloves
 * Elemental gloves
 * Shark gloves
 * Swordfish gloves
 * Moonclan gloves
 * Slayer gloves
 * Runecrafter gloves
 * Infinity gloves
 * Golden mining gloves
 * Spiked gauntlets
 * Green d'hide vambraces
 * Lunar Gloves
 * Werewolf claws
 * Hallowed gloves/Unhallowed gloves
 * Batwing gloves
 * All Dominion gloves
 * Bronze athlete's gloves
 * Beta Scientist gloves
 * Imphide gloves
 * Pneumatic gloves

Locations
Patches of nettles can be found:
 * Northeast of Canifis east of Mazchna, the slayer master
 * Within the Yew trees section of Edgeville, leather gloves spawn south of the nearby bank
 * On the south and east sides of the Draynor Village jail
 * On the east side of Draynor Manor
 * Near Father Urhney's house in the Lumbridge Swamp
 * Near Varrock's Redberry bushes (in ruins just south-west of the southern-most church) (two plants)
 * In the very south-eastern part of the Haunted Woods
 * South of the entrance of Fenkenstrain's Castle
 * South of the ALQ fairy rings code

Trivia

 * The green hitsplat sometimes makes players think they are poisoned, even when they are not. Although the pain nettles cause is caused by a weak poison that can kill some insects but not humans, merely inducing pain.
 * A glitch allowed free to play players to collect nettles during one short period of time; however, these nettles cannot be exploited in any method in a free world, since they appear as "Members Objects". This glitch was quickly rectified.
 * The sound you hear when you get hurt by nettles is the same sound goblins used to make when hit by a player in combat.
 * There is a glitch that when a player tries to pick a nettle without gloves, the player turns the same color as a darker skinned vampyre.
 * You do not need gloves to pick up the item version of nettles. (aka, what you drop)