Parietaria hespera var. hespera

B. D. Hinton
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
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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

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Ariz., Calif., Nev., N.Mex., Utah, nw Mexico

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
light-brown +
0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br /> (?) +
mucronate +, acute +  and ovoid +
0.6mm +  and 0.7mm +
0.2cm;4.5cm +
acute +, acuminate +  and acute or obtuse +
0.2cm;2.7cm +
David E. Boufford +
B. D. Hinton +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
truncate +, rounded +  and cuneate +
0.2cm;2.7cm +
Ariz. +, Calif. +, Nev. +, N.Mex. +, Utah +  and nw Mexico +
0-1400 m +
reflexing +  and inflexed +
pistillate +  and staminate +
loosely +  and free +
Chaparral, deserts, roadsides, sand dunes, often in shaded and moist places +
straight +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
conspicuously longer than wide +
orbiculate +, oblong +  and ovate +
0.4cm;2.7cm +
rounded +  and linear +
accrescent +
Flowering late winter–early summer, rarely at other times. +
branched +  and simple +
erect +, ascending +  and decumbent +
dilated +  and short-cylindric +
not +  and persistent +
Parietaria hespera var. hespera +
Parietaria hespera +
variety +
reddish +, greenish +, green +  and white +
distinct +
shorter or longer +
hypogynous +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br />) +
13 +, 10 +, 8 +  and 7 +