Herbs, 0.3-5.5 dm. Leaf-blades narrowly to broadly ovate, less frequently oblong or nearly orbiculate, 0.4-4.5 × 0.4-2.7 cm, conspicuously longer than wide, base broadly cuneate, rounded, or truncate, apex distally rounded or acuminate to acute or obtuse. Flowers: involucral-bracts 1-4.5 mm; tepals erect, loosely connivent at maturity, ca. 2-2.8 mm, apex acute.
Phenology: Flowering late winter–early summer, rarely at other times.
Habitat: Chaparral, deserts, roadsides, sand dunes, often in shaded and moist places
Elevation: 0-1400 m
Distribution
Ariz., Calif., Nev., N.Mex., Utah, nw Mexico
Discussion
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stipitate +
symmetric +
light-brown +
dehiscing +
basifixed +
0.2cm;4.5cm +
0.2cm;2.7cm +
0.2cm;2.7cm +
arranged +
rounded +
pistillate +
bisexual +
straight +
absent +
lacking +
hooked +
stinging +
axillary +
spikelike +
arising +
dotted +
conspicuously longer than wide +
proximal +
equal +
0.4cm;2.7cm +
simple +
alternate +
apical +
persistent +
hypogynous +
accrescent +
absent +
staminate +
bisexual +
Sida +
1969 +
longitudinal +
absent +
matted +
prostrate +
sessile +
deciduous +
centered +
absent +
absent +
Parietaria hespera var. hespera +
Parietaria hespera +
variety +
connivent +
distinct +
shorter +
shorter or longer +
erect +
hypogynous +
equaling +
annual +
pubescent +
small +