Parietaria hespera |
Parietaria praetermissa |
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California pellitory, pelitory, rillita pellitory, unknown |
cluster pellitory |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, 0.2-5.5 dm. | Herbs, annual, 1-5.5 dm. | ||||
Stems | simple or freely branched, sometimes densely matted, prostrate, decumbent, ascending, or erect. |
freely branched, decumbent to ascending. |
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Leaf | 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. |
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. |
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Flowers | involucral bracts 1-4.5 mm; tepals 2-2.8 mm, shorter or longer than bracts. |
involucral bracts 1.3-4.7 mm; tepals 1.7-2.3 mm, equal to or shorter than bracts. |
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Achenes | light brown, symmetric, 0.9-1.2 × 0.6-0.7 mm, apex obtuse, mucro apical; stipe centered, short-cylindric, basally dilated. |
light brown, asymmetric, 1-1.4 × 0.7-1.1 mm, apex obtuse, mucro subapical; stipe slanting, short-cylindric, not centered, basally dilated. |
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Parietaria hespera |
Parietaria praetermissa |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Shell mounds, calcareous outcrops, hammocks, waste places | |||||
Elevation | 0-10 m (0-0 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; NV; UT; Mexico
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FL; GA; LA; NC; SC |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (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.) |
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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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Name authority | B. D. Hinton: Sida 3: 293. (1969) | B. D. Hinton: Sida 3: 192. (1968) | ||||
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