Parietaria floridana |
Parietaria judaica |
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Florida pellitory |
spreading pellitory |
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Habit | Herbs, annual or short-lived perennial, 1-4 dm. | Herbs, perennial from crown, 1-8dm. |
Stems | 10-20-branched, decumbent to ascending. |
ascending, erect, or decumbent. |
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 broadly elliptic, lance-elliptic, or ovate, 1.3-9 × 0.8-4.5 cm, base attenuate, cuneate, or broadly rounded, apex abruptly acuminate to long-attenuate. |
Flowers | involucral bracts 1.5-2 mm; tepals ca. 1.5 mm, nearly equal to bracts. |
involucral bracts 1.5-2.5 mm; tepals ca. 2-3.5 mm, longer than 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. |
dark brown, symmetric, 1-1.2 × 0.6-0.9 mm, apex acute, mucro absent or minute; stipe centered, on cylindric base. |
Parietaria floridana |
Parietaria judaica |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering all year, with peak in late winter–spring. |
Habitat | Weedy places, around masonry, woodland and shrub borders, shell mounds, sandy beaches, roadsides, Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains | Cracks in sidewalks, ballast heaps, waste places, frequently about ports and coastal areas |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
Distribution |
DE; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; Mexico; South America; West Indies
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CA; FL; LA; MI; NJ; NY; PA; TX; Eurasia; n Africa [Introduced in North America]
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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.) |
Parietaria judaica, which, in North America, is most abundant in scattered localities in California, is the only long-lived perennial species of Parietaria in the flora. Because of confusion in Europe over the correct name, plants in North America have been called P. judaica, P. officinalis of authors, not Linnaeus, P. officinalis var. erecta (Mertens & Koch) Weddell, and P. officinalis var. diffusa (Mertens & Koch) Weddell. For a clarification of the nomenclature and taxonomy of this complex, see C.C. Townsend (1968). Parietaria judaica was first reported from Louisiana as P. diffusa Mertens & Koch, another name commonly used on herbarium specimens (J.W. Thieret 1969). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Urticaceae > Parietaria | Urticaceae > Parietaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | P. nummularia | |
Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 208. (1818) | Linnaeus: Fl. Palaest., 32. (1756) |
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