Parietaria floridana Nutt.

Florida pellitory (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae > Parietaria

Characteristics

Herbs , annual or short-lived perennial, 1-4 dm. Stems 10-20-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. Flowers: involucral bracts 1.5-2 mm; tepals ca. 1.5 mm, nearly equal to 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.
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Reports of P. floridana Nutt., another southern sp., with the lvs 3-nerved from the truncate or rounded base, may be based on small plants of P. pensylvanica.
Life form annual
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-11

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Images

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Distribution

Parietaria floridana world distribution map, present in Mexico and United States of America

Conservation status

Parietaria floridana threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:854920-1
WFO ID wfo-0001143408
COL ID 4DMB3
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Parietaria suffruticosa Freirea floridana Parietaria nummularia Parietaria floridana Parietaria rotundifolia Parietaria globulifera