I'm trying to help identify a plant some friends and I were discussing the other day. I'm not sure what it's real range is, the only encounter I had was on the coast when I came into contact with it. It was on Vandenberg AFB, which is at Lompoc CA. That's the best I can do as far as it's location.

I remember it looking like a weed, nothing extraordinary about it, however, I got into a patch of it, and it was like being stung by a jelly fish. The pain was instant, intense, and immediately left a welt like rash, wherever it touched me. Absolutely hurt like well, just bad. Also seemed that the surface of the leaves felt kind of rough, but that could have just been the beginning of the stinging pain.

Had one of my friends who was skeptical that the efects could be that quick, but I couldn't do a search because my search critera was so broad I got about a million hits.

Anyone able to help me out here? Sorry for the weak description, but that was quite a few years ago.

Thanks,
J