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Florida pellitory

cluster pellitory

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

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
from FNA
DE; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; Mexico; South America; West Indies
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from FNA
FL; GA; LA; NC; SC
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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 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
P. hespera, P. judaica, P. pensylvanica, P. praetermissa
P. floridana, P. hespera, P. judaica, P. pensylvanica
Synonyms P. nummularia
Name authority Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 208. (1818) B. D. Hinton: Sida 3: 192. (1968)
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