Friday 12 June 2009

pellitory-of-the-wall

Last year I overlooked a plant growing in roadside walls on the high street as a cultivated labiate. I've now realised that it's growing wild - it's spread over walls over a considerable length of the street - and that it is pellitory-of-the-wall (Parietaria judaica).

[It's seeing small nettle (Urtica urens) recently that nudged me into recognising the infloresences as being those of an urticaceous plant.)

Further along the street I encounted a couple of plants of dwarf mallow (Malva neglecta), which is my first record for the Florula Prima area.

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