Parietaria floridana |
Parietaria praetermissa |
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Florida pellitory |
cluster pellitory |
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Habit | Herbs, annual or short-lived perennial, 1-4 dm. | Herbs, annual, 1-5.5 dm. |
Stems | 10-20-branched, decumbent to ascending. |
freely 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. |
blades narrowly to broadly ovate or rarely lanceolate, 1-6.5 × 0.6-4 cm, base rounded or very broadly cuneate, apex short- to long-acuminate or attenuate. |
Flowers | involucral bracts 1.5-2 mm; tepals ca. 1.5 mm, nearly equal to bracts. |
involucral bracts 1.3-4.7 mm; tepals 1.7-2.3 mm, equal to or shorter 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. |
light brown, asymmetric, 1-1.4 × 0.7-1.1 mm, apex obtuse, mucro subapical; stipe slanting, short-cylindric, not centered, basally dilated. |
Parietaria floridana |
Parietaria praetermissa |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering winter–summer. |
Habitat | Weedy places, around masonry, woodland and shrub borders, shell mounds, sandy beaches, roadsides, Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains | Shell mounds, calcareous outcrops, hammocks, waste places |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) | 0-10 m (0-0 ft) |
Distribution |
DE; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; Mexico; South America; West Indies
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FL; GA; LA; NC; SC |
Discussion | Parietaria praetermissa has been misidentified as P. floridana by some authors. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Parietaria praetermissa is endemic to the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of southeastern United States. The name Parietaria floridana has been incorrectly applied to this species. (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) | B. D. Hinton: Sida 3: 192. (1968) |
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