Common Name: NETTLE FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb [to shrub, soft-wooded tree], hairs stinging and not [glabrous]; monoecious or dioecious; wind-pollinated. Leaf: alternate or opposite, generally stipuled, petioled, blade often with translucent, raised dots due to crystals in epidermal cells. Inflorescence: axillary, 1-flowered or head-, raceme-, or panicle-like. Flower: generally unisexual, small, +- green; sepals generally 4--5, free to fused; petals 0. Staminate Flower: stamens generally 4--5, opposite sepals, incurved in bud, reflexing suddenly when flower opens. Pistillate Flower: ovary 1, superior, chamber 1, style 0--1, stigma 1, generally hair-tufted. Fruit: generally achene. Genera In Family: 50 genera, 700 species: worldwide; some cultivated (Boehmeria, ramie; Pilea, clearweed). eFlora Treatment Author: Robert E. Preston & Dennis W. Woodland Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: PELLITORY Habit: Hairs sparse to dense, stinging 0. Stem: branches from base, decumbent to erect, generally herbaceous. Leaf: alternate, blade 1--9 cm, lanceolate to round, entire; stipules 0; crystals round. Inflorescence: head-, spike-, or panicle-like, generally few-flowered; flowers subtended by involucre of 1--3 lance-linear bracts. Flower: sepals 4, fused below. Staminate Flower: stamens 4. Fruit: ovoid, shiny. Etymology: (Latin: wall, from habitat of some) Unabridged Note:Parietaria floridana Nutt. collected as nursery weed in SCo. Unabridged Reference: Hinton 1969 Sida 3:293--297
Parietaria pensylvanica Willd.
NATIVE Habit: Annual < 6 dm, decumbent to erect. Leaf: blade 10--90 mm, on older stems lanceolate to linear, base long-tapered, tip generally acuminate to long-tapered, lowest veins from midrib well above blade base. Flower: calyx lobes +- erect, 1.5--2 mm, acute, dark red-brown. Fruit: hidden between calyx lobes or not, 0.9--1.5 mm, 0.5--1 mm wide, ovate, +- (red-) brown, tip obtuse. Chromosomes: 2n=16. Ecology: Desert scrub, coastal scrub, chaparral, oak forest, riparian woodland; Elevation: 200--730 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, NCoRI, s SN, SnJt; Distribution Outside California: to southern Canada, eastern United States, Mexico. Flowering Time: Apr--Jun Note: Possibly alien; California collections historic, widely scattered. Jepson eFlora Author: Robert E. Preston & Dennis W. Woodland Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Parietaria judaica Next taxon: Soleirolia
Botanical illustration including Parietaria pensylvanica
Citation for this treatment: Robert E. Preston & Dennis W. Woodland 2012, Parietaria pensylvanica, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=36257, accessed on March 28, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on March 28, 2024.
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