Parietaria floridana |
Parietaria hespera |
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Florida pellitory |
California pellitory, pelitory, rillita pellitory, unknown |
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Habit | Herbs, annual or short-lived perennial, 1-4 dm. | Herbs, annual, 0.2-5.5 dm. | ||||
Stems | 10-20-branched, decumbent to ascending. |
simple or freely branched, sometimes densely matted, prostrate, decumbent, ascending, or erect. |
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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. |
blades narrowly to very broadly ovate, oblong, orbiculate, or reniform, 0.2-4.5 × 0.2-2.7 cm, base broadly cuneate, rounded, truncate, or nearly cordate, apex acuminate, acute, obtuse, or rounded; proximal pair of lateral veins arising at junction of blade and petiole. |
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Flowers | involucral bracts 1.5-2 mm; tepals ca. 1.5 mm, nearly equal to bracts. |
involucral bracts 1-4.5 mm; tepals 2-2.8 mm, shorter or longer than bracts. |
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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. |
light brown, symmetric, 0.9-1.2 × 0.6-0.7 mm, apex obtuse, mucro apical; stipe centered, short-cylindric, basally dilated. |
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Parietaria floridana |
Parietaria hespera |
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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 |
DE; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; Mexico; South America; West Indies
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AZ; CA; NM; NV; UT; Mexico
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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||
Parent taxa | Urticaceae > Parietaria | Urticaceae > Parietaria | ||||
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Synonyms | P. nummularia | |||||
Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 208. (1818) | B. D. Hinton: Sida 3: 293. (1969) | ||||
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