Scientific Name: Parietaria debilis

Common Name: shade pellitory

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Urticaceae

Threatened Species Status: Rare

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Slender annual herb with branches 10-30cm long; succulent leaves with soft hairs on slender stalks.

Flowers: Crowded and borne in the leaf axils, on twin stems with 3 flowers.

Fruit: Achene – glossy, smooth, flattened, 1.5mm long.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonBurnieDorsetFlindersHuon ValleyKing IslandLatrobeLaunceston
Plant Communities
Coastal Vegetation
Habitat Notes

Among muttonbird rookeries, in the salt spray zone on cliffs and rocks, on grazed pasture and grassland and on sand dunes in Northern Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.

General Notes

Tolerant of salt spray.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Seed

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Probably propagated from seed.