Participant Info

Species

Parietaria pensylvanica [Parietaria obtusa] [Parietaria floridana]

Family

Urticaceae

CommonName

Pennsylvania pellitory

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1983

LatestDate

1986

Ecosystem

montane

Geobotanical

Garitas

Counties

Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Pellitory has been found in only two Watershed locations, very close to each other: a rhyolite seep (“Ball Arroyo”) 13 miles W of Saguache on Hwy 114 (Saguache Co, 1984, 1987); and below volcanic rimrock half a mile W of the upper Saguache Forest Service Station (Saguache Co, 2983). Pellitory is scattered all around Colorado, and is present in every state of the USA. It may be more widespread in the Watershed than this record indicates, growing in damp rocky niches such as seeps and talus slopes. It follows the Rio Grande drainage all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.

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