Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Parietaria debilis

Common name

Native pellitory, Shade pellitory

Family

Urticaceae

Where found

Damp or shady situations in a variety of habitats. Widespread. Common in the Blue Mountains and Kanangra-Boyd National Park.

Notes

Annual herb to 0.3 m high. Sometimes rooting at the nodes. Stems slightly to densely hairy, sometimes with scattered glandular hairs.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6–4.5 cm long, 4-20 mm wide, more or less hairy, sometimes sticky, bases rounded, sometimes almost cordate, tips blunt. Leaf stalks 10-30 mm long. Male, female, and bisexual flowers on the same plant. Flowers about 1.0–2.5 mm long, green, with 4 'petals', in 2–10 flowered clusters. Flowers Aug.–Nov.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Parietaria~debilis (accessed 30 January, 2021)