4105

Forb
Annual
Polygamous

Native to the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare in Coastal Plain, a waif elsewhere

Look for it on coastal shores, sometimes weedy in calcareous situations, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Greenish
Bisexual or unisexual
4 sepals
Petals absent
4 stamens in staminate flowers
Superior ovary
Inflorescences axillary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Parietaria floridana   FAMILY Urticaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Parietaria floridana   FAMILY Urticaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Parietaria nummularia