Flora of North America species comparison

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Parietaria floridana

Florida pellitory
Habit Herbs, annual or short-lived perennial, 1-4 dm.
Stems

10-20-branched, decumbent to ascending.
Leaf

blades orbiculate to deltate, 0.7-2.7 × 0.5-1.7 cm, base truncate, rounded, or very broadly cuneate, apex smoothly attenuate or occasionally slightly acuminate.
Flowers

involucral bracts 1.5-2 mm;

tepals ca. 1.5 mm, nearly equal to bracts.
Achenes

light brown, symmetric, 0.5-0.8 × 0.3-0.6 mm or less, apex obtuse, mucro ±apical;

stipe centered, short-cylindric, abruptly flared basally.

Parietaria floridana
Phenology Flowering winter–spring.
Habitat Weedy places, around masonry, woodland and shrub borders, shell mounds, sandy beaches, roadsides, Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains
Elevation 0-30 m (0-100 ft)
Distribution
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DE; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; Mexico; South America; West Indies
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Discussion

Parietaria praetermissa has been misidentified as P. floridana by some authors.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Urticaceae > Parietaria
Sibling taxa
P. hespera, P. judaica, P. pensylvanica, P. praetermissa
Synonyms P. nummularia
Name authority Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 208. (1818)
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