Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Parietaria debilis

Flowering stem. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Plant. Photographer Jackie Miles

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)