Family Index

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Scientific Name

Parietaria debilis

Family Name

URTICACEAE

Common Name

Shade Pellitory

Status

Rare

Height

Flowers

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

Fruit

Form

Slender annual herb with branches 10-30cm long, and succulent leaves on slender stalks.

Municipalities

Break O'Day; Brighton; Burnie; Dorset; Flinders Island; Huon Valley; King Island; Latrobe; Launceston

Communities

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.

Site Tolerance

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

General Notes

Probably propagated from seed. Tolerant of salt spray. Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Oct

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Seed Collecting Months

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Oct

Nov

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Sowing Months

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Cutting Months

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Dec

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Glossy, smooth, flattened fruits, 1.5mm long.

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Cutting Notes