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Pennsylvania Pellitory - Parietaria pensylvanica
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Native Species Global Rank :
G5
State Rank :
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C-value :
3
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General Description
Annual with sparsely short-hairy foliage. Stems simple to branched, 5–30 cm. Leaves alternate; the blades 5–40 mm long, narrowly elliptic with entire margins. Flowers male and female mixed in axillary clusters subtended by linear bracts 2–5 mm long; female flowers with a tufted stigma. Achenes smooth, shiny, ca. 1 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX ).
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Native
Range Comments
Scattered across much of MT but infrequent along Hi Line; YK, MB, ON and QC, southwest Canada through most of U.S. to Mexico (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX ; Boufford 1997 in Fl. N. Amer. Vol. 3).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 78
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Habitat
Shaded, often disturbed soil of open forest, stream banks, beneath shrubs or rocks, occasionally epiphytic in humus of deciduous tree crotches; plains, valleys (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX ).
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